>  >Does XML actually "need" a credible linking specification?
>              I'm uncomfortable with the word credible in this context. I
>  suppose that html's simple hyperlinking is non-credible, when does the
>  status of credibility accrue to a spec. When it's simply too incredible
>  for common use? [very very sorry for the pun]

I would think the need for credibility evident from this very thread.  
"Credible", of course, means that other working groups don't just turn up 
their nose at it if they happen not to like one or more of its grubby corners.


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