Re: First cut at a W3C XML Schema for XLink

/ ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) was heard to say:
| 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?

Too marginal, I think.

|> |  <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.?

I thought you were trying to describe the content model of extended
links. For that, don't you need element decls?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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