RE: [xml-dev] (In)Validate My Assumptions on Linking.

[peter murray-rust <pm286@cam.ac.uk>]

At 20:31 02/10/2006, Nathan Young -X \(natyoung - Artizen at Cisco\) wrote:
>I had a busy week so didn't get to reply to this in a timely way.
>
>Many people seem to have ideas about linking use cases... xlink was
>implemented to handle some of them, XHTML some more, topic maps some as
>well... RDF... I know not every implementation is working to support the
>same set.  Would it help to enumerate the use cases we are talking about
>when we say "links"??

I think this is extremely useful. At the zeroth level it allows 
people to navigate through to their case(s) and find whether there 
are already solutions.

For my part I am interested in adding some form of "typing" and 
validation to the links - do the links actually point to the sort of 
"object" they say they do, and also to consistency of links.

If this can be pursued by the list I think it will have considerable 
general benefit.

P.



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