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Paul Prescod wrote:
> Erik Wilde wrote:
>>so what about defining an xlink data model in terms of infoset
>>extensions, referencing it in xhtml and defining an xhtml-happy syntax
>>for it, and then going ahead and defining a css3 module for link
>>formatting?
> So what you're saying is that XHTML and XLink will be hard-coded to
> integrate with each other at the prose specification level (rather than
> through any syntax) and other vocabularies will have to integrate with
> XLink through the intrusive XLink-namespaced attributes? I don't see
> that as progress.
it's not the prose level, but i don't have any complete solutions yet i
could pull out of my pocket. i think that the xlink data model would be
defined in terms of infoset contributions, and that this spec would
define a namespace uri. this namespace uri would then be used in the
xhtml spec to refer to the semantics and infoset contributions defined
in the xlink data model spec.
>>css3 would require some work, because the selectors would need to be
>>extended to cover infoset extensions, and a new module for properly
>>handling link formatting would be required. however, i think it would be
>>worth it, since this could be used for *any* vocabulary being built on
>>the xlink data model.
> When a browser sees a new vocabulary how will it know how to map from
> the syntax into the XLink data model?
there would be a css or xslt style sheet associated with the new
vocabulary to define the processing of xlink infoset contributions. the
xlink infoset contributions would be defined in the way how the new
vocabulary defines markup for xlink data model items and properties. i
am not sure how this could be made in the best way, either prose (sorry!
then it needs to be hard-coded in the browser), or some formalized
mapping mechanism (xslt? xpath? or something simpler? i have to think
about that...).
this probably will not sound all that appealing on first sight. however,
i think that having a universal hypermedia model for the web would be a
very good thing. there once was a time when the web was considered a
hypermedia system, and not only an infrastructure for having stuff sent
to browsers.
cheers,
erik wilde - tel:+41-1-6325132 - fax:+41-1-6321035
mailto:net.dret@dret.net - http://dret.net/
computer engineering and networks laboratory
swiss federal institute of technology (eth)
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