Re: [xml-dev] XLink and mixed vocabulary design

 (Robin Berjon) writes:
>The ability to understand links without knowledge of the 
>vocabulary seems to me to be of high value. 

If it was, people might do it. 

>The ability to stuff embedding and hyperlinking on the same element
>appears to me to be of fairly little value.

To you, perhaps.  To me, it seems like basic functionality.

I think there are multiple communities of hypertext practice out there,
and XLink, so far as I can tell, has proven optimal (heck, even
exciting) for none.