Simon St.Laurent wrote:

>    I could certainly live with:
>  
>  <img>
>    <src xlink:href="whatever.gif" />
>    <longdesc xlink:href="item.txt" />
>    <alt>This is alt text</alt>
>  </img>

It gets more interesting when you add

   ...
   <src type="thumbnail" xlink:href="whateverTN.gif" /> 
   <longdesc xml:lang="JA-jp" xlink:href="expl-nihongo.html" /> 


>  I'm not sure I feel confident, however, that it's the one and only
>  correct answer.  

No more am I.  But it feels quite a bit cleaner than what we have now. -Tim


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