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Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0
/ Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> 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.
| Considering validation and comfortable editing issues I'm not sure
| whether removing linkend in future is wise. But having two attributes
| (linkend, xlink:href) for doing almost same in parallel brings many
| troubles and uncertainity in processing as Norm pointed earlier. It is a
| hard decision.
We're going to have both, at least for V5.0. Hopefully we'll get
feedback on whether or not it's a problem in practice.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | A man who is 'of sound mind' is
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | one who keeps the inner madman
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | under lock and key.--Val\'ery
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