RE: [xml-dev] xml:href, xml:rel and xml:type

["Toby Considine" <Toby.Considine@gmail.com>]

If one were to go down this path, relative addressing, as in xpath, would
need to be in the mix.

I find that when I use these constructs, though, I confuse users.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 8:50 AM
To: Rushforth, Peter
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] xml:href, xml:rel and xml:type

> So that makes me wonder if
> XML would benefit from a _single_ simple link standard, inherited by 
>all XML vocabularies  in the same manner as xml:base,  xml:lang .

Just checking as you didn't mention it - are you aware of xlink:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/

Usually when this question comes up, the answer is that linking is done in a
different layer to the xml (the presentation layer).


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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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