Re: 5.1 Extended Link Groups

| 5.1.a Shall we support a mechanism for a document to contain a list of 
| other documents that someone thinks ought to processed with it, in order
| to find linking elements pointing into the first document, and in general
| create a web of related documents?

"In general create a web" confuses an otherwise clearish question.

Again, XML 1.0 allows this.  You are asking not whether it should be
supported in general, but whether one method should be specified.  Yes.

| 5.1.b If so, shall we say anything normative about whether this must be 
| done? 

No.

| 5.1.c Should we use an SGML element, a PI, or some other construct to hold 
| this list of documents? 

An SGML DTD defined by the SGML ERB.

| 5.1.d If we use an element, what should it be called? 

"-//W3C//DTD XML-omnistuff//EN", unless you're serious that the W3C
doesn't own XML, in which case maybe "-//Everyman//DTD XML-omnistuff//EN".

| 5.1.e If we use an SGML element, should we have subelements per referenced 
| doc or just a token-separated list of entity names in a single attribute? 
| In either case what should the subelement (if any) and attributes be 
| called? 

It would be so much more relaxing to write a DTD for this, wouldn't it?  In 
any event you have to provide (what were) HRTYPEs for each doc referred to.  


(Still helping the SGML ERB with its inquiries)
  Terry Allen    Electronic Publishing Consultant    tallen[at]sonic.net
       specializing in Web publishing, SGML, and the DocBook DTD 
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Received on Tuesday, 4 March 1997 20:14:12 UTC