Tim Bray writes:
>  It gets more interesting when you add
>  
>     ...
>     <src type="thumbnail" xlink:href="whateverTN.gif" />
>     <longdesc xml:lang="JA-jp" xlink:href="expl-nihongo.html" />

Sure - if and only if people actually use that functionality.  

It's not clear to me that XLink directly supports this kind of linking -
this doesn't feel like a clear multidirectional complex link to me - so
I'm not sure the claim of a generic linking system is that strong.

>  > 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. 

It may feel cleaner, but I don't yet think it's time to say we're done.  

I miss XArc (http://jfinity.com/xarc/spec-current/index.html)  if we
want to talk about clean.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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