On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Oskar Welzl wrote:
> 
> There are various opinions on this topic; me, myself and I all would
> happily add xlink:type="simple" if, in return, we'd get
> xlink:type="extended" and external linkbases. If, in return, we'd use
> standards in XHTML, rather than home-brew proprietary solutions; the
> same standards that are used in Open Document, SVG, XTM, XBRL...

I don't know about the others, but at least in the case of SVG, you can't 
use external linkbases. SVG's re-use of XLink is not general re-use, it is 
really just a repurposing of the attributes from the XLink namespace.

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