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Re: Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0
At 12:39 PM -0500 11/14/01, Norman Walsh wrote:
>
>Yes. If we go the pointerlanguage route, we could, for example, let it
>be a URI. Given
>
> pointerlanguage='http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/...'
>
>we could say that the only legal form is #id or a full URI reference.
>
I think specifying a pointer language is outside the scope of
DocBook. If we're using XLinks, then what goes in an xlink:href
attribute is a URI. Various RFCs define what's legal there and what
it means. The legal forms of a URI are not intended to be changed on
a vocabulary-by-vocabulary basis.
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