Re: <a:b:c> and xlink

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 03:51:14PM +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> 
>    On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:24:18PM +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
>    > fails to have an infoset,and does not work with xpath (thus xpointer
>    > xlink etc), doesn't it?
> 
>     Just to raise teh fact that XLink does not depend on XPointer,
>    thus xpointer yes, xlink no.
> 
>    Daniel
> 
> 
> Perhaps I misunderstood, but it seems to me that unless a document
> conforms to the namespace rec then the namespaced xlink attributes
> are not going to get recognised, so documents that have element names
> with two : can't be used with xlink can they?

  right, they can't be used with XLink (which requires namespace support)
but not due to a dependency on XPath,

Daniel

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