Re: Suggestions/Questions

At 15:36 2000 06 30 -0700, Jonathan Marsh wrote:
>Also, one thing that consistently bugs me is the required href attribute on
>loc.  It drives me nuts to keep the following kind of thing in sync:
>
>  <loc href="http://www.w3.org">http://www.w3.org</loc>
>
>I do this all the time in issue and comment resolution markup.  I wish to be
>able to write one of these instead.
>
>  <loc href="http://www.w3.org"/>
>  <loc>http://www.w3.org</loc>

What prevents you from writing the former?  It's content is #PCDATA
which can be empty.

(You seem to be getting close to asking for something that smells 
a lot like SGML's CONREF!  I have to say I liked that too, but it
was decided to leave that out of XML.)

Received on Saturday, 1 July 2000 10:21:19 UTC