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Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0
Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> 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.
OK. But in that case, there should be at least:
xlink:type (simple|extended) #IMPLIED
> > 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.
OK. So lets have extended links in DocBook. With ~400 elements, DocBook
always provided features that most users didn't use, but they were there
for few people who needed them.
Jirka
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