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- To: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@dyomedea.com>,"Mike Champion" <mc@xegesis.org>
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Rethinking namespaces, attribute remapping (was Re:[xml-dev] TAG on HLink)
- From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 07:10:40 -0700
- Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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- Thread-topic: [xml-dev] Rethinking namespaces, attribute remapping (was Re:[xml-dev] TAG on HLink)
Let's see if I understand this...
1.) The colonified names way
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink/ <http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink/> "...
Disadvantages: Verbose.
Advantages: All information necessary to process links is self contained in document.
2.) The HLink way
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; hlink:definition=http://www.example.org/whatever...
Advantages: Modular, easy for Joe Blow to use without understanding how it works
Disadvantages: Security issues, information necessary to process document no longer self contained
In my personal opinion, HLink is a step backwards for general XML processing. However given the unique constraints of the XHTML working group I can see why they chose HLink as a solution and agree that something like it is needed for XHTML which is intended for use by non-technical people in a simple and straightforward manner without placing undue cognitive load.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@dyomedea.com]
Sent: Fri 9/27/2002 6:38 AM
To: Mike Champion
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Rethinking namespaces, attribute remapping (was Re:[xml-dev] TAG on HLink)
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 15:23, Mike Champion wrote:
> So, HLink shows us a sketch of what an XLink without colonified namespaces might
> look like.
That's not a bad analysis and what I find ironical is that is a sense
one of the first applications to have shown the way is a highly
colonified one: W3C XML Schema!
The idea behind the PSVI is more or less to say that names (local or
not) do not care if you know the type and that you might use namespaces
or not if you like, it doesn't matter as long as you know the types.
HLink can be seen as a lightweight mechanism to do a similar mapping,
but it's kind of following the same path.
Do you think colons might auto-anihilate themselves at the end of the
day?
Eric
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