- From: David Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:36:23 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 12:59 PM -0500 2/21/97, Steven J. DeRose wrote: >At 11:53 PM 02/20/97 -0800, Tim Bray wrote: >>The ERB schedule calls for voting on Feb. 26 on these items. >> >>3.1.a Should we have a principle that all linkage information is encoded in >>GIs and/or attribute values, never in character data? > >No. Unenforceable, and sometimes it's useful anyway, such as for supporting >links from every word to dictionaries/glossaries/etc, for links from 'the >current selection', etc. Sorry. I think we should say that all _XML-linking_ information is encoded in GIs or attribute values. With generic markup people can _implement_ any behavior that they can define -- but we are defining behaviors that people can count on -- and links in CDATA are not such behaviors unless we define how they work. I think the fact that people can implement other linking mechanisms goes without saying, but we should be explicit about exactly what is permitted by XML linking. -- David _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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