Article:		XLink: Who Cares?
Subject:		Difficulties styling XLinks
Date:		2002-03-19 08:12:59
From:		Erik Wilde
Response to: Difficulties styling XLinks
i disagree with the opinion that xlink styling is not a problem. opera's css extensions are interesting, and xsl-fo also has some (rather weak) support for styling links. but: if you think of the linking model of xlink, you will see that many complex links (such as multi-ended links or transclusions and the whole issue of how to style titles and roles) have no well-defined representation. i think that this is one of the reasons why xlink support generally is so weak. implementors must solve many problems that are not part of xlink (and rightly so), but which should be specified in additional specs making it clear how complex xlinks should be styled. currently, even if browsers were supporting xlink, they would display them in very different (and proprietary, as indicated by opera's css extensions) ways.

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