Re: XSchema Spec - Extensions (Section 2.6), Draft 2

Toby Speight (tms@ansa.co.uk)
13 Jul 1998 14:11:51 +0100


Simon> Simon St.Laurent <URL:mailto:SimonStL@classic.msn.com>

=> In article <UPMAIL17.199807121508110924@classic.msn.com>, Simon
=> wrote:

Simon> <!ENTITY % ibtwsh SYSTEM "http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/ibtwsh.dtd">
Simon> %ibtwsh;
Simon> <!ELEMENT XSC:Doc %horiz.model;>
Simon>
Simon> Any element allowed in the horiz.model set of elements (A, BR,
Simon> SPAN, XML, CITE, CODE, DFN, EM, KBD, SAMP, STRONG, VAR, FONT,
Simon> or parsed character data) may be used in the XSC:Doc element.

This worries me a little. What's the purpose of FONT? It's being
dropped from HTML (i.e. it's only in the "transitional" version of
HTML 4), so why create a legacy that will need supporting later?

I think we could also do with a definition or convention for
referencing things defined in the XSchema. It would be nice to have
something less verbose and more robust than <A HREF="#DOC"><CODE
CLASS="xml-element">DOC</CODE></A> each time you want to mention your
DOC element. A specialised reference type, with a choice of IDREF or
extra-document linking would be welcome.

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