- From: Eve L. Maler <eve.maler@east.sun.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:30:08 -0500
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
At 03:31 PM 12/29/00 +0700, James Clark wrote:
>5.1.2 says "If a locator-type element has anything other than an
>extended-type element for a parent, the locator-type element has no
>XLink-specified meaning." 5.1.3 makes a similar statement for arc-type
>elements. I expected 5.1.1 to contain a similar statement for
>resource-type elements, but I couldn't find it.
>
>5.1 says "Subelements of the locator, arc, or resource type that are not
>direct children of an extended-type element have no XLink-specified
>relationship to the parent link." The following subsections make a
>rather stronger statement, namely "that they have no defined meaning".
>I would suggest 5.1 say the same.
These are reasonable suggestions. I think I just overlooked making them
all consistent.
>I couldn't understand why the sample DTD in Appendix B makes the label
>attribute required for the locator-type element but not required for the
>resource-type element.
Another oversight. I think they should both be #REQUIRED, since an element
without a label attribute is uninteresting to XLink.
Thanks,
Eve
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