- From: Eve L. Maler <elm@east.sun.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 07:58:19 -0500
- To: "Carver, Floyd" <fcarver@rpaworldwide.com>
- Cc: "'www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org'" <www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org>
At 08:56 AM 2/2/00 -0500, Carver, Floyd wrote:
>Is the function of the role attribute intended to be used as a type
>constraint on the resource being linked to/from? It isn't clear that when
>providing a role, which is a defined type, that there is an enforced
>constraint on the linked resource to be of this type.
>
>-floyd
It's not an enforced constraint, just a declaration of the role it plays in
this link. (In another link, it might play a different role.) If you want
to enforce any characteristics of the resource, you'd have to do that in a
separate application.
Eve
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