RE: [xml-dev] Xlink Isn't Dead

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

>          Hopefully, they'll get a clue, at some point, and 
> use the ideas behind XLink as a basis for putting link 
> behavior where it belongs -- in the styling languages. Then 
> the rest of us will be able to model our links however we want.

Actually, I don't think it belongs only in the styling languages. I think
the big mistake in XLink is a failure to recognize that there are two
separate things: a relationship between pieces of information, and a
navigable hyperlink. We've achieved the separation of content from
presentation in other areas, we just haven't achieved it for relationships.
The presentation forms do need better navigation facilities, and core XML
also needs (much) better facilities for modelling relationships.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/