At 12:47 AM -0700 8/12/02, Micah Dubinko wrote:


> For example, it's not clear how the following could be recast to use XLink:
> <xhtml:form action="http://submit.example.com" method="post">
> <!-- form submission is a link, sort of -->

<xhtml:form xlink:type="simple" 
xlink:type="http://submit.example.com" 
xlink:arcrole="http://www.example.com/post"> 


> <xhtml:object href="http://link.example.com"
> longdesc="http://desc.example.com"/>
> <!-- two different variations on 'onRequest' activation -->


This calls for an extended link; e.g.

<xhtml:object xlink:type=""extended"> 
   <href xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="http://link.example.com"/> 
   <longdesc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="http://desc.example.com"/> 
</xhtml:object> 

(Yes, you could do this in a more complicated fashion with labels and 
arcs too, but I think this works for XHTML.)

I don't know that I'd say this is better than what XHTML has now, but 
it is absolutely possible.

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