& XSLT At 5:45 PM -0400 8/15/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> <img>
>    <src xlink:href="whatever.gif" />
>    <longdesc xlink:href="item.txt" />
>    <alt>This is alt text</alt>
> </img>
> 
> I'm not sure I feel confident, however, that it's the one and only
> correct answer.  There's a layer in there which feels like it's
> somewhere between simple and complex links, and I don't think XLink has
> really described how the relationship between the img element and the
> child element simple links in src and longdesc might work.
> 

It absolutely does not, because this is application layer markup. The 
XLink syntax only defines the existence of a link between two 
resources, the meaning and behavior of that link is a question for 
the particular application and the local processing environment, and 
this is how it's intended to be.

XLink cannot and should not attempt to define this. XHTML most 
certainly should define the meaning of links within its domain. And 
other applications will define the meaning and behavior of links 
within theirs.
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