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.
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