Re: link relations and links in general

[Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Erik Wilde wrote:

> hello subbu.
>
> Subbu Allamaraju wrote:
> > > http://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/2009/06/link-discovery-for-xml.html
> > I suspect that this is heading towards XLink.
>
> not really. the important difference is that XLink links instances  
> (it specifies links for concrete URIs), whereas LDX specifies how to  
> discover links in media types. i think this is an important  
> difference, and my post definitely failed to be very specific about  
> this. the reason why i think it's important is that REST centers  
> around media types and following links, and LDX should be a god  
> match with that.

Ah I see. Just read your post again. I don't think link discovery on  
its own solves anything, unless the author of the  representation or  
the media type says something about a link appearing at any given  
position an an XML document.

Subbu