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   Re: [xml-dev] XHTML 2.0 and the death of XLink and XPointer?

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"Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au> writes:

>  From: "Norman Walsh" <ndw@nwalsh.com>
>  
> > / "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au> was heard to say:
> > | There is also another approach lurking in the wings, to wit: use a schema
> > | which declares the linking properties of various information items. 
> > |
> > | E.g.
> > |
> > | <attribute name="href" type="anyURI"  xlink:type="href" xlink:actuate="user" />
> > 
> > I think you mean defaulted attribute values. But I think you've just
> > made the xs:attribute element into a link :-)
> > 
> > Or maybe you mean to add a new semantic? Or maybe you mean to add
> > these in some sort of annotation?
>  
> Oops, killed by terseness.  Yes, I should have written something link
> 
> <attribute name="href" type="anyURI"  xlink-type="href" xlink-actuate="user" />
> 
> If it were a W3C XML Schema schema, this would be done in an <annotation> I guess.

I'd rather you stayed with a separate namespace, so I think your
original proposal was fine, as long as the ns binding of 'xlink' is
not "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";.

That way, the attributes you used are annotations.

ht
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