Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 2:02 PM -0500 11/15/01, Norman Walsh wrote:
>/ Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> was heard to say:
>| <xref xlink:href="#some_id_in_doc"/>
>|
>| This link can't be checked by validation, you must check it when
>| processing document by stylesheet or some clever XLink processor (if
>| there is any).
>
>Well, this link won't be checked by DTD validation. But there's no
>reason why a more sophisticated processing application (an editor, for
>example) couldn't check this link.
>

I'm slowly being convinced that XLinks don't make sense for internal 
links; e.g. linkend. I can still see using them in place of the 
various kinds of external links though.
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