Sam Steingold wrote:
> <1>
> However XLink links are not checked during validation, while
> xml:id/linkend links are checked for ID/IDREF consistency. It
> depends on your needs what approach to internal linking is more
> suitable for you.
> One case where the XLink-based, fragment identifier scheme is
> useful is when XInclude is being used. XML ID/IDREF links cannot
> span XInclude boundaries.
>
> this means that if my document lives in several files, I cannot combine
> them together using xinclude because I require link validation and
> cross-linking between document parts. (I also produce chunked output
> thus xl:href="#dir" will not work for me anyway).
Have you tried this? AFAIK stylesheets internally process <bar
xl:href="#foo">...</bar> in the almost same way as <bar><link
linkend="foo">...</link></bar>. So you can't check consistency of links
by XML validation, but stylesheets check links during processing, so you
will at least get warning messages.
Jirka
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