[georss] kml reference placemarks v/ georss?

Gregor J. Rothfuss gregor at apache.org
Fri Feb 23 14:35:20 EST 2007


josh at oklieb.net wrote:
>> sgillies at frii.com wrote:
>>
>>> Gregor,
>>>
>>> The divide between HTML links and KML network links should be closed,
>>> with
>>> KML joining the existing Web. Ditch <NetworkLink> for <a rel="KML-Link">
>>> or something like that. Nevermind WFS, there's no web there.
>> the only problem with that is that NetworkLink specifies a lot of
>> behavior for these links. in order to preserve that, it would have to be
>> <a rel="KML-link"><someoptiontag>
>>
>> this quickly gets unwieldy. which is presumably why NetworkLink was
>> invented :)
> 
> Strangely enough (and earlier), also why WFS was invented. ;)

i see :) still, what can we do to encourage linking of even the most 
basic sort? clearly it has been very beneficial on the web despite the 
limatations of <a href. interestingly, better linking specs never went 
anywhere.




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