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

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ "Bob DuCharme" <bob@snee.com> was heard to say:
| I think that this was part of XLink's problem: the SGML influence was on
| how to model links so that they could be converted to links in multiple
| media, and the W3C (HTML) influence was on how to specify link behavior in
| browsers  (with lots of accessibility caveats thrown in to make it clear
| that the spec was talking about ideal browsers of the future), and
| specification for modeling links with specification for implementing them,
| however generalized, made it a messy spec.

Indeed.

| equivalents, as appropriate, I'd rather see XLink add to the richness of
| the semantic relationships expressed within DocBook and other semantic
| markup schemas so that XSLT can convert that markup to hypertext links, or
| TOCs, or endnotes, or popups, or whatever is appropriate for the output
| medium in question.

One of my personal motivations for touching XLink again was to make it
practical to use XLink in DocBook in a post-DTD world. DocBook V5.0 uses
XLink more-or-less ubiquitously.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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