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


At 8:09 PM -0500 11/15/01, Norman Walsh wrote:


>Adding linking *everywhere* would in many ways be a radical departure
>from both historical legacy in DocBook and current practice "in the
>field". There are no environments that I'm aware of where users can
>routinely associate links with absolutely any semantic element they
>choose.
>

HTML? Perhaps users can't add it quite everywhere (I doubt it would 
work in a head or a title) but almost everywhere. The distinction 
between "can" and "may" could be important here. Authors can and do 
use A links in places the DTD doesn't allow it, and it works as 
expected in browsers.
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