Re: DOCBOOK: Linking in DocBook V5.0

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org>]

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At 08:07 14-11-2001, Norman Walsh wrote:
>One outstanding problem is the link attribute names. Unfortunately,
>XLink doesn't allow the XLink HREF attribute to be renamed, so we'll
>have to battle the linkend vs xlink:href problem. I think we have
>two options, we could:
>
>1. Switch. Remove linkend and break everything all at once.
>
>or
>
>2. Allow both in V5 and remove linkend in V6. Stipulating that when both
>    are present linkend wins (or xlink:href wins, whichever).

I like allowing both, for a simple reason: xlink:href is an XPointer, and 
linkend is an IDREF.  For internal references, the IDREF is more 
convenient.  In doctypes I've designed that have internal and external 
linking from the same element type, I tend to exploit this dichotomy, since 
I (or my stylesheets) can know more about the destination when it's internal.

~Chris
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