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Re: CR exit criteria for XLink/Schema imposed by XHTML/SMIL

From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:23:01 +0200
Message-ID: <39C9E185.C31593FC@dyomedea.com>
To: Philipp Hoschka <ph@w3.org>
CC: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org, tbl@w3.org, danc@w3.org, dv@w3.org
Philipp Hoschka wrote:
> 
> Eric,
> 
> Could you explain in a bit more detail how you think this would work ?
> As far as I understand, this would require one XSLT transformation
> per language that states which attributes should be converted into
> Xlinks. The schema-based solution only requires one Schema with
> subtype-definitions that can be reused in many languages.

You can design a single XSLT transformation working with different
namespaces (but you have to know them in advance).
Isn't it the same with XML Schema ?
Wouldn't you have to define a schema for each namespace --even if you
can "ref" attributes in a common one ?

> But I guess it's better to postpone a discussion until the note
> is actually public - Daniel, any idea when this will be ?
> Maybe you can already make the draft that you have today public, and
> then
> potentially update it based on discussions.

I think you're right, since I miss an important piece of the puzzle !

Thanks

Eric
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