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> Uche Ogbuji wrote:
>
> > > [Joe English]
> > > [Re: http://www.w3.org/TR/hlink/ ]
> > >
> > > Initial impression: This looks OK. It finally reinvents
> > > architectural forms in a way that's usable in XML.
> >
> > I'm surprised to hear you say this. HLink looks more about annotating
> > attributes for presentation semantics than any form of remapping or
> > vocabulary-level adaptation.
>
> That's not surprising, since most of the semantics
> added by HLink _are_ presentation-oriented.
Agreed, but that wasn't the matter I was emphasizing.
> But there is a small kernel, sort of a design pattern,
> that could be reused in other architectural vocabularies.
> The key pieces are the declaration element (hlink:hlink),
> and the 'namespace' and 'element' attributes; all the
> other hlink:hlink attributes are treated uniformly by
> the remapping process.
>
> Other vocabularies could reuse this technique by specifying
> their own declaration elements, which would work the same
> way.
Hmm. I don't see anything in HLink that would encourage me to follow suit if
I wanted to do some vocabulary adaptation of my own. Basically, I think
you're saying HLink is a very weak sort of exemplar of the beginnings of a
hypothetical approach to AFs in XML (;-) ). I suppose I could by that, but I
don't know why it's significant since any number of other arbitrary
vocabularies can be seen the saem way.
> > > (XLink started to do this, but the omission of any kind
> > > of attribute renaming facility and the lack of a reliable
> > > attribute value defaulting scheme made XLink inflexible
> > > and difficult to use, as Steve Pemberton's message convincingly
> > > described. The 'hlink' declaration scheme solves both those
> > > problems.)
> >
> > Ah. I don't see any attribute renaming in HLink.
>
> For example:
>
> <hlink:hlink element="img" locator="@src"/>
>
> means, roughly, that the 'src' attribute of an 'img' element
> is to be treated as the 'locator' attribute of an 'xlink:simple'
> element. It's basically the same as the AFDR declaration:
>
> <!ATTLIST img
> XLinkNames #FIXED "src locator"
> >
>
> (where XLinkNames is the "Architectural attribute renamer" attribute.)
I find this hard to accept. It seems that by this thinking, any vocabulary
that is a variant of another can be seen as an attribute remapping.
Maybe I misunderstand you, but I still see no real attribute mapping in HLink.
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Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc.
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Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management, Part 7 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think12.html
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