RE: [xml-dev] [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration langu ages]

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Bullard, Claude L (Len) <>
To
'Ann Navarro' <>, 'Arjun Ray' <>,
Date
2002-09-13T21:34:37Z
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RE: [xml-dev] [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration langu ages]
That is a consensus of the uninformed, Ann. 
That is how we get into these traps where 
mutual self-referencing creates an illusion 
of spec-based design.  The question here is 
simple:  are these arc forms renamed and 
slightly weakened such that what we end 
up with is more complicated and less powerful?

len


From: Ann Navarro [mailto:]

At 04:19 PM 9/13/2002 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>I read this earlier and almost responded; it appears
>the WG is attemping a weak version of architectural
>forms.
>
>Is this another case of changing the names and adopting
>a piece of another technology (namespaces) that makes
>the result more complicated than the original and
>ends up being less powerful?

No, see XHTML Modularization conformance definitions, 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/conformance.html#s_conform . 
These terms have been around for several years now (without argument from 
the community).

The point of the message is the linking examples, not an ideological 
argument about application construction.