Bug 10556 – Support XLink in any XML document

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WONTFIX
• Component: XML

[Peter Hosey]

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.

[Frank Illenberger]

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.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

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

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

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

--- Comment #3 from Thom <[e-mail]>  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.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/96552385>

[Ahmad Saleem]

Mozilla opted to not extend Xlink support beyond SVG and marked their bug as RESOLVED WONTFIX - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=xlink

Further, it is also deprecated in SVG2 - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/xlink:href

Can we close this, if we are not planning to extend XLINK. Thanks!

[Brent Fulgham]

(In reply to Ahmad Saleem from comment #5)
> Mozilla opted to not extend Xlink support beyond SVG and marked their bug as
> RESOLVED WONTFIX - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=xlink
> 
> Further, it is also deprecated in SVG2 -
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/xlink:href
> 
> Can we close this, if we are not planning to extend XLINK. Thanks!

Thanks for doing that research!

Yes, let’s close.