At 5:52 AM -0500 11/15/01, Norman Walsh wrote: >Yes, that's one of the factors that motivates me as well. We'll have >enough trouble with nested inlines. (And, btw, my gut reaction is to >generate broken HTML. The browser ought to handle nested links, gosh >darn it. Oh, I know I'll get talked out of it, but that's still my gut >reaction.) >
Yes, but this disadvantage applies equally well to nested inlines as you point out. If this really bothers us, we shouldn't add XLinks at all. I don't think this is an adequate reason to disallow XLinks on block level elements. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>