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> John Cowan wrote:
> >
> > Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
> >
> > > Allowing href on everything - whether or not it has the unnecessary
> > > xlink: namespace slapped on it - is a much larger advance in making
> > > hypertext broadly useful than any attempt to rewrite XHTML to take
> > > advantage of complex links.
> >
> > I agree, actually. But it wouldn't cost them anything to use
> > xlink:href (and a #FIXED attribute of xlink:type="simple") and it
> > would make generalized link harvesters that much more useful.
>
> I disagree. There is a cognitive load imposed by requiring authors to
> remember what namespaces various features of their markup language come
> from. RDF for metadata. DC for a particular ontology. XLink for linking.
> XForms for forms. HTML's original virtue was how easy it was to learn
> and remember.
This may be so, but I don't see why I should accept it on faith. One could
say that HTML has a lot for people to remember that could have been
simplified. I find it very hard to believe that it would be such an
additional burden for people to remember the string "xlink:".
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