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Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0
- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat dot com>
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:56:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Linking in DocBook V5.0
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- Reply-to: veillard at redhat dot com
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:47:44PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> 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:
It's an error in my mind because I definitely want to make use of
extended linkx and this would make this impossible.
> If there is a way to rename xlink:href in XLink I would say, adopt it
No, this was beaten to death for 2 years, forget about this.
> Is there anybody who need to use extended links? If there is no stress
Yes, me. I want to be able to use external link bases containing
generic indexes for a collections of documents at least.
Daniel
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