Bug 10556 – Support XLink in any XML document

Bug 10556 - Support XLink in any XML document


Summary:	Support XLink in any XML document

Status:	NEW

Product:	WebKit
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	XML
Version:	420+
Platform:	Macintosh Mac OS X 10.4

Importance:	P3 Enhancement
Assigned To:	Nobody

URL:	http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/
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Reported:	2006-08-25 00:10 PDT by Peter Hosey
Modified:	2009-08-20 22:59 PDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Peter Hosey 2006-08-25 00:10:31 PDT

According to the Bugzilla search results for “xlink”, WebKit already seems to support XLink — but only in SVG documents. I propose that it should be allowed in any XML document; then, no munging to XHTML (e.g. with XSLT) would be required for an XML document with CSS stylesheet to be rendered as-is in WebKit.

Comment 1 Frank Illenberger 2008-02-07 09:13:35 PST

Currently it is not possible to get any hyperlinks in pure XML documents without mixing with XHTML because there are no CSS extensions like Opera's -o-link and no xlink support. This is a serious limitation.

Comment 2 Alexey Proskuryakov 2008-02-07 11:18:36 PST

Would it be possible for you to provide a simple test case for this?

Comment 3 Alexey Proskuryakov 2009-08-20 22:59:35 PDT

Bugzilla has experienced amnesia today, here is a comment that was lost:

--- Comment #3 from Thom <thom.venividivici+webkitbugs@gmail.com>  2009-08-20 12:34:53 PDT ---
http://www.snee.com/xml/xlink/sxlinkdemo.xml

is an xml document that's used to showcase mozilla's xLink support, which is
better, but also poor.