At 12:39 PM -0500 11/14/01, Norman Walsh wrote: > >Yes. If we go the pointerlanguage route, we could, for example, let it >be a URI. Given > > pointerlanguage='http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/...' > >we could say that the only legal form is #id or a full URI reference. >
I think specifying a pointer language is outside the scope of DocBook. If we're using XLinks, then what goes in an xlink:href attribute is a URI. Various RFCs define what's legal there and what it means. The legal forms of a URI are not intended to be changed on a vocabulary-by-vocabulary basis. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>