Re: <?XDEV?> and BEHAVIOR: a meta-proposal and a proposal

Rick Jelliffe (ricko@allette.com.au)
Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:09:52 +1100

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> From: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>

> <PROPOSAL>
> That two attribute values for XML-LINK's BEHAVIOR attribute be recognised
> through an XDEV PI:
> BEHAVIOR="DisplayStandAlone"
> BEHAVIOR="DisplayInContext"
> That for the second option an additional attribute CONTEXTREF is required,
> whose value is a valid URL and points to the XML element providing the
> display context of the current element.
> The actual details of display are application (and possibly stylesheet)
> dependent.
> </PROPOSAl>

Another approach might be to use the name prefix XDEV: on attribute
values, e.g.

BEHAVIOUR="XDEV:DisplayStandAlone"

and the contextref attribute you suggest, e.g.

BEHAVIOUR="XDEV:DisplayInContext"
XDEV:CONTEXTREF="saltmines.xml#DESCENDANT(1,ORGCHART)"

Rick Jelliffe

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