- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 09:21:15 -0500
- To: Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>, "'spec-prod@w3.org'" <spec-prod@w3.org>
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.)
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