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Re: 4.3 SGML addressing

From: David Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 10:58:11 -0500
Message-Id: <v03007805af45eae8ec90@[128.148.19.149]>
To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 12:33 PM -0800 3/4/97, Tim Bray wrote:
>Background: the draft spec supports SGML-style addressing, traditional
>IDREF(S) and also by entity name.
>
>4.3.a Should we support this type of locator?

We will impair the advantages of XML for SGML users a lot if we don't
support SGML-style addressing.

>4.3.b Should we support entity addressing by name?

I think this idiom for inter-document links (ent=foo refid=bar-in-foo) is
so common that we must support it.

>4.3.c Should we support element addressing by ID attribute?

Yes.

>4.3.d Should we support a combination of these two?
Yes.

>4.3.e What syntax should we use?

The Entity attribute should be one way to do BASE (or whatever). The
declaration can cause the behavior to switch from URL-interpretation to
entity reference interpretation.

  -- David

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