Re: traversal attributes are NMTOKEN instead of NCNAME in the XML Schema

Apologies for the long delay in replying.

/ david.k.vun.kannon@us.pwc.com was heard to say:
| The non-normative XML Schema for XLink 1.1 mistakenly uses NMTOKEN as the
| restriction base for the types for the traversal attributes label, from, and to.
| These should be based on NCNAME, as stated in the text of the specification,
| section 5.7 (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-xlink11-20060328/#traversal-atts).
| If you refer back to the XBRL schemas that were provided earlier in the 1.1
| process, you can confirm that they use NCNAME, not NMTOKEN.

Fixed, thank you.

| Speaking as a private individual (not for the XBRL consortium or my company) I
| believe that XBRL is the largest use of XLink in the world. The chief avenues of
| extensibility provided by XBRL are new schemas, new XLink roles and arc roles,
| and new XLink linkbases. The XBRL consortium of more than 400 organizations
| worldwide has recently opened a Link Role Registry to support reuse and
| interoperability of roles and arc roles. It would be appropriate if the donation
| of the XML Schemas for XLink, which first appeared in XBRL 2.0 (2001) was noted
| in the 1.1 document.

I added the following note to the end of the appendix that contains
the schema:

<p>Note: The Working Group acknowledges the work of the
<a href="http://www.xbrl.org/">XBRL Consortium</a>
in producing a W3C XML Schema for XLink 1.0, which was useful input
into the design of the schema document for XLink 1.1.</p>

Please let us know if this response is satisfactory.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh
XML Standards Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.