Re: DOCBOOK: Linking in DocBook (specifically for EBNF, but more generally as well)

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net> was heard to say:
| Norm wrote:
| | How do we want to do this, with two attributes?
| | 
| | <nonterminal linkend="foo">
| | <nonterminal url="http://...">
| | 
| | and the semantic that only one is allowed (but linkend wins if both
| | are specified) or with a single XLink attribute
| 
| Ick, if we wanted to do this we should put an OR choice of
| linking elements within nonterminal.

We already have a precedent for this sort of thing. Consider
a <link> element with both an endterm attribute and content.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | If brute force doesn't work, maybe
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