Uche Ogbuji writes:
>  > This message in particular:
>  > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Jul/0199.html
>  > 
>  > reads like an acknowledgment that the XLink WG did in fact say more
>  > or less "the hell with XHTML"
>  
>  It doesn't read that way to me at all.  Can you explain?  No such
>  thing is in the text, so you'll have to show how it may be in the
>  subtext.

Sure.  Read this piece of it hard, and decide whether the XLink WG
actually felt that the concerns of the HTML WG were important.  
-----------------------------------
 >  2: It must be possible to apply XML link semantics to existing 
documents by
 >  modifying the documents' DTDs only, requiring no modification to the
 >  document instances themselves.

Yes, the XLink WG failed to meet this requirement.

 >  We also thought that requirement 2.3:
 > 
 >      XLink must support HTML 4.0 linking constructs.
 > 
 >  meant that XLink would support, well, HTML 4.0 linking constructs.
 >  This turned out to be a matter of interpretation.

Yes, the XLink WG interpreted this to mean that what they built should
have power and flexibility as rich as that in HTML4.
-----------------------------------------

In short, they "failed to meet" a requirement that the XHTML WG
considered important, and "interpreted" away a requirement that they
actually support HTML 4.0 linking constructs.

I have a very hard time reading this much more kindly than "go away; we
don't care about what you want."  Then again, I've had that response
from the XLink WG on enough occasions that I'm almost certainly biased.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com

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