Re: [xml-dev] "Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore the basicprinciples

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Rushforth, Peter scripsit:

> I'm not sure what the rule of least power would say about that, but
> from the KISS perspective, those seven attributes come from HTML,
> effectively, and if they were "burned into" XML, it would go a long
> way towards supporting the uniform interface in all implementations.

I don't know which seven attributes you mean.  XLink 1.1 has ten
attributes, but only one is required (xlink:href) for "simple conformance".

> Hence tref, which although does not come from HTML, might be nice
> for XML to put out there, since we have a newly created RFC for URI
> templates.

The xml: namespace is not the place to put things that "might be nice".

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