- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 09:47:43 +0900
- To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>, "'spec-prod@w3.org'" <spec-prod@w3.org>
At 00/07/01 09:21 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote: >At 15:36 2000 06 30 -0700, Jonathan Marsh wrote: > >Also, one thing that consistently bugs me is the required href attribute on > >loc. It drives me nuts to keep the following kind of thing in sync: > > > > <loc href="http://www.w3.org">http://www.w3.org</loc> > > > >I do this all the time in issue and comment resolution markup. I wish to be > >able to write one of these instead. > > > > <loc href="http://www.w3.org"/> > > <loc>http://www.w3.org</loc> > >What prevents you from writing the former? It's content is #PCDATA >which can be empty. What's missing is the convention to expand this appropriately. Of course such a convention can be added if we think that empty content isn't used otherwise. But it then has to be added to all the stylesheets/transformations that work with it. >(You seem to be getting close to asking for something that smells >a lot like SGML's CONREF! I have to say I liked that too, but it >was decided to leave that out of XML.) It's a very useful thing, but not something that needs special treatment. Regards, Martin.
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