"Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@[...].au>  writes:

>   From: "Norman Walsh" <ndw@[...].com>
>   
>  > / "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@[...].au> was heard to say:
>  > | There is also another approach lurking in the wings, to wit: use a schema
>  > | which declares the linking properties of various information items. 
>  > |
>  > | E.g.
>  > |
>  > | <attribute name="href" type="anyURI"  xlink:type="href" xlink:actuate="user" />
>  > 
>  > I think you mean defaulted attribute values. But I think you've just
>  > made the xs:attribute element into a link :-)
>  > 
>  > Or maybe you mean to add a new semantic? Or maybe you mean to add
>  > these in some sort of annotation?
>   
>  Oops, killed by terseness.  Yes, I should have written something link
>  
>  <attribute name="href" type="anyURI"  xlink-type="href" xlink-actuate="user" />
>  
>  If it were a W3C XML Schema schema, this would be done in an <annotation> I guess.

I'd rather you stayed with a separate namespace, so I think your
original proposal was fine, as long as the ns binding of 'xlink' is
not "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink".

That way, the attributes you used are annotations.

ht
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