Re: First cut at a W3C XML Schema for XLink

Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM> writes:

> The 'role' and 'arcrole' attributes must be absolute URIs, not strings.
> (see http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xlink-20010627/#link-semantics)

Ah, thanks.  Easy to make them xs:anyURI.  To make them absolute, we
_could_ add the following patttern:

  [a-zA-Z][\-.+a-zA-Z0-9]*:.*

Too cute/marginal, or worth it?

> |  <xs:element name="simple" type="xlink:simpleType"/>
>
> There are no elements in the XLink namespace. Maybe make
> simple, extended, title, etc. abstract?

Or just remove the elt decls altogther, and change the type names to
'simple', 'extended', etc.?

ht
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