Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

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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