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

• From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@...>
• To: Ben Trafford <ben@...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:40:38 +0200

Ben Trafford wrote:

>     After much thinking, reading, and reviewing, I've come to these 
> three ideas:
> 
>     1) Stylesheet languages need some sort of way to display links from 
> generic XML. This is so we can interact with them in user agents. By 
> "stylesheet languages," I am specifically referring to XSL-FO and CSS.
> 
>     2) Links need to be declared in generic XML, 

Given the point 1 which allows you to turn anything into link, why you 
then need to declare it as link on XML level (point 2). I mean if you 
have some generic XML, e.g.:

<hotel moreinfo="http://example.org/dream-hotel">
   ...

and you are able to say that this element should work as link on a 
stylesheet level, e.g.:

hotel { link-type: simple;
         link-target: attr(moreinfo);
       }

what is then point of point 2?

			Jirka

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