xlink:type="none" What's the purpose? from AndrewWatt2000@aol.com on 2002-03-10 (www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org from January to March 2002)

From: <AndrewWatt2000@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 05:02:05 EST
To: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <193.37b9944.29bc891d@aol.com>

The XLink Rec specifies that one of the permitted values for the xlink:type 
attribute is "none".

One of the very few mentions of this value of the xlink:type attribute is in 
Chapter 5.3 where it is stated, "When the value of the type attribute is 
"none", the element has no XLink-specified meaning ...".

So it seems that we have a specified value of the xlink:type of "none" which 
is specified by the XLink Rec to have no XLink meaning.

Am I missing some profound subtlety here or is this just a little surreal?

Andrew Watt

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