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Subject: Re: [dita] Issue with names of navref element and mapref= attribute
- From: Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com
- To: "W. Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:25:23 +1000
"W. Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com>
wrote on 2007-01-23 06.17.52:
> It seems to me that we should be consistent in either using href=
"for"
> all addresses (my preference) or consistent is having the name of
the
> referencing attribute indicate the nominal type of the target.
DITA 2.0 will, I presume, be namespace-aware.
Whatever we decide should probably be done in conjunction with the XLink
namespace (http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/). An extensible standard like
DITA needs a way for any specialization to unequivocally state that such-and-such
an attribute is a hyperlink. Otherwise any tool that works with DITA
documents may accidenally munge hyperlinks when, say, moving a resource.
Anyone who has looked through the DITA-OT gen-list target Java code
will see how precarious it can be to scan for hyperlinks.
Standards of comparable or greater maturity (such
as SVG) use XLink; they might be worth looking at for inspiration.
--
Deborah Pickett
Deborah_Pickett@moldflow.com
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