Re: DOCBOOK: Linking in DocBook V5.0

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:47:44PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> > Norman Walsh wrote:
> >
> > > Given a PE like this:
> > >
> > > <!ENTITY % xlink-optional-simple-link "
> > >    xlink:type      (simple)        #IMPLIED
> >
> > I think that there should be #FIXED "simple", so one is not forced to
> > add xlink:type="simple" to every start tag with link. This will save
> > typing, but make all instances of particular element simple link. I'm
> > not sure if this is problem, XLink spec. is quite vague in this topic:
> 
>   It's an error in my mind because I definitely want to make use of
> extended linkx and this would make this impossible.

OK. But in that case, there should be at least:

    xlink:type      (simple|extended)        #IMPLIED

 
> > Is there anybody who need to use extended links? If there is no stress
> 
>   Yes, me. I want to be able to use external link bases containing
> generic indexes for a collections of documents at least.

OK. So lets have extended links in DocBook. With ~400 elements, DocBook
always provided features that most users didn't use, but they were there
for few people who needed them.

			Jirka

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