[xml-h] where to put links

[Norman Walsh]

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/ "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl at simonstl.com> was heard to say:
| with a nice loud bang.  I've created a lot of overlapping links in HTML
| by accident, and while there was no bang, there was sometimes a fair
| amount of cursing.

The fact that HTML doesn't allow overlapping links is just dumb. When
I implemented XLink support in DocBook, I wrote a little bit of
extension code to handle them. I chose the "innermost link wins"
strategy, but a UI that allowed for multi-ended links could just as
easily provide a drop-down.

| That's pretty cool, but XML's insistence on clean structures will still
| leave some kinds of in-line linking as annoying at best.

To the extent that you want LMNL-like overlapping, definitely. But
that's an XML "problem" not a linking problem.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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