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Re: Linking: removing linkend
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:00:21 -0500
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Linking: removing linkend
- List-id: <docbook.lists.oasis-open.org>
- References: <10111150108.aa19347@mammoth.ca.caldera.com>
/ Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com> was heard to say:
| Well, I disagree.
| Doesn't removing linkend in DocBook 5 break the protocol
| established for backwards incompatible changes (warn
| in one major release, remove in next)? You'll have alot
| of unhappy users if you remove linkend in V5.
You're right, which effectively closes the issue. I thought that we
had an FU comment in 4.0 that there would be changes associated with
links for XLink support, but I'm mistaken.
| Besides, why can't they exist together? I don't understand
| the idea of "winning" here. A linkend (an IDREF)
<link id="foo" linkend="foo"
xlink:type="simple"
xlink:href="http://nwalsh.com/">Is this link
self-referential?</link>
<link id="foo" linkend="foo"
xlink:type="simple"
xlink:href="#bar">Is this one?</link>
<ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/"
xlink:type="simple"
xlink:href="#bar">What does this mean?</link>
My "winning" comment applied to the case when both were specified and they
pointed to different things. (Well, it applied to when they pointed to the same
things too, but that's not a very interesting case :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Success is relative; it is what we
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | make of the mess we have made of
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | things.--T. S. Eliot
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