Well, I think I may have to start tying my shoes with the left hand
leading, anyway.
I will think about all you guys have suggested for a while before
answering.
Thanks
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:]
> Sent: July 3, 2012 12:36
> To: Rushforth, Peter
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] "Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore
> the basic principles of MicroXML"
>
> On 03/07/2012 17:27, Rushforth, Peter wrote:
> > HTML has had links implemented for more than a couple of
> decades, we
> > should respect that experience.
>
> Yes exactly, the experience shows that links don't need to be
> (and probably shouldn't be) implemented in the underlying
> generic markup (SGML or XML) but can be dealt with
> effectively by application specific markup (html href and src
> attributes).
>
> The one recent attempt to put linking into the generic markup
> (xlink) failed because the application specific markup was
> more convenient and more appropriate for any application that
> needed linking.
>
> Somehow you are reading the same history differently, but I'm
> not sure why?
>
> David
>
>
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