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Re: 3.1.a All linkage info in markup not data?

From: Steven J. DeRose <sjd@ebt.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:59:27 -0500
Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970221175927.00bd94f8@pop>
To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 11:53 PM 02/20/97 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
>The ERB schedule calls for voting on Feb. 26 on these items.
>
>3.1.a Should we have a principle that all linkage information is encoded in 
>GIs and/or attribute values, never in character data? 

No. Unenforceable, and sometimes it's useful anyway, such as for supporting
links from every word to dictionaries/glossaries/etc, for links from 'the
current selection', etc.
Received on Friday, 21 February 1997 13:02:20 EST

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