setting attributes in XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 / W3C Working Draft 17-July-2000

Julian,

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paul

>From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
>To: <www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org>
>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:10:33 +0200
>Subject: setting attributes in XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 / W3C
Working Draft 17-July-2000
>
>Hi,
>
>the previous draft included a suggestion for a mechanism that would have
>allowed to add the included resource as an attribute value:
>
>Issue (XInclude:32-include-attributes): Currently, it is not possible to set
>the value of an attribute through an include mechanism. This make it
>difficult to generate XLinks for example. Should a mechanism be developed to
>include text as attribute values?
>
>I wonder why this wasn't added -- seems to be very useful for instance if
>one wants to XInclude the value of an XHTML href attribute...
>
>Julian