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After the thread a while back about the
death of XLink, I keep finding examples
of it being cited, particularly in the
OGC literature.
It seems it lives. I have to wonder
what implementations there are and if any
of them interoperate past spelling it the
same way. Or is this an example of yet
another abstraction that has been adopted
not by the consensus as to its utility,
but the mere fact of standardization and
a consensus not to reinvent that which
has already been spec'd elsewhere
regardless of the implementation status?
I wonder of there is a term for this
phenomenon: polite inclusion of other
works that are not successful in terms
of ground support, and which become a
drag on the uptake of the standards/specs
which include them.
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