Re: [dita] Issue with names of navref element and mapref= attribute

"W. Eliot Kimber" <>
wrote on 2007-01-23 06.17.52:

> It seems to me that we should be consistent in either using href=
"for" 

> all addresses (my preference) or consistent is having the name of
the 

> referencing attribute indicate the nominal type of the target.

DITA 2.0 will, I presume, be namespace-aware.

 

Whatever we decide should probably be done in conjunction with the XLink
namespace (http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/).  An extensible standard like
DITA needs a way for any specialization to unequivocally state that such-and-such
an attribute is a hyperlink.  Otherwise any tool that works with DITA
documents may accidenally munge hyperlinks when, say, moving a resource.
 Anyone who has looked through the DITA-OT gen-list target Java code
will see how precarious it can be to scan for hyperlinks.

Standards of comparable or greater maturity (such
as SVG) use XLink; they might be worth looking at for inspiration.

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Deborah Pickett