Re: [xml-dev] linking, 80/20

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Re: [xml-dev] linking, 80/20
Simon St.Laurent scripsit:

> Allowing href on everything - whether or not it has the unnecessary
> xlink: namespace slapped on it - is a much larger advance in making
> hypertext broadly useful than any attempt to rewrite XHTML to take
> advantage of complex links.

I agree, actually.  But it wouldn't cost them anything to use
xlink:href (and a #FIXED attribute of xlink:type="simple") and it
would make generalized link harvesters that much more useful.

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