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XLink works pretty well in monolithic vocabularies, but runs into problems
when you start mixing and matching.
XHTML2 gets it right by having two distinct attribute names ('href' and
'src') for two distinct kinds of linking, both of which may occur on the
same element.
.micah
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:53 PM
To: XML Developer List
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] RDDL(2): new version up
>* no Microsoft support
>* limited browser support generally
>* too many years in the making
>* most people still don't get/want multi-ended links
>* XPointer was slow to arrive, over-complex when it arrived
>* standardization in linking isn't that exciting anyway
>* overlaps with RDF and Topic Maps for more abstract possibilities
>
>That's a brief list. Given more time, I can certainly find more.
>
>--
>Simon St.Laurent
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