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   Re: [xml-dev] limits of the generic

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Tim Bray wrote:
>
> Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> >
> > You want links to be manifest in well formed documents because links are
> > obviously important to you but couldn't I want the same for any other
> > type which is important to me?
>
> Yep, but I think links have special importance to the Web and should be
> manifest in documents used on the Web. -Tim


How is blind recognition of links any more useful than
blind recognition of any other data type (which is to say,
not very)?

It might be useful for spiders, but I can't think of any
other application that would benefit.


--Joe English

  jenglish@flightlab.com




 

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