/ Jirka Kosek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh wrote: | | > Given a PE like this: | > | > <!ENTITY % xlink-optional-simple-link " | > xlink:type (simple) #IMPLIED | | I think that there should be #FIXED "simple", so one is not forced to | add xlink:type="simple" to every start tag with link. This will save | typing, but make all instances of particular element simple link. I'm | not sure if this is problem, XLink spec. is quite vague in this topic:
I think it would definitely be a problem. A link is a link if and only if it's xlink:type is simple. | "It is not an error for a simple-type element to have no locator (href) | attribute value. If a value is not provided, the link is simply | untraversable. Such a link may still be useful, for example, to | associate properties with the resource by means of XLink attributes." I don't think that would make much sense in our context. | > 1. Switch. Remove linkend and break everything all at once. | | This is not good approach, IMHO. | | > 2. Allow both in V5 and remove linkend in V6. Stipulating that when both | > are present linkend wins (or xlink:href wins, whichever). | | In that case, I'm almost sure that linkend will win and we only shift | decision of removing it one DocBook version forward. In this light, | removing linkend in DocBook 5 doesn't sound silly. Exactly. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Vision is the art of seeing things http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | invisible.--Swift Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>