At 2:02 PM -0500 11/15/01, Norman Walsh wrote: >/ Jirka Kosek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >| <xref xlink:href="#some_id_in_doc"/> >| >| This link can't be checked by validation, you must check it when >| processing document by stylesheet or some clever XLink processor (if >| there is any). > >Well, this link won't be checked by DTD validation. But there's no >reason why a more sophisticated processing application (an editor, for >example) couldn't check this link. >
I'm slowly being convinced that XLinks don't make sense for internal links; e.g. linkend. I can still see using them in place of the various kinds of external links though. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | 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>