[Note: I accidentally CCed the wrong list with the below message. docbook-apps, feel free to ignore.]
"The link is a general purpose hypertext element."
The
element I propose has nothing to do with hypertext. It is simply
another part of an <address>, same as <email>,
<phone>, etc. It is another bit of information about how to
contact a person/organization.
If we already have <email>, then why not <web> or
<homepage>? Also remember that an email address can be displayed
as hypertext as well (i.e. a mailto: link in a web browser), but it
doesn't have to be. Same with a home page URL. We don't have to use
<link> for an email address within <address>.
Colin
On 7/24/07, <
> wrote:Hi,
> [...]
> > Maybe I am missing something obvious, but why not use link?
>
> Because it's a link, not a URL
But a link can also be a URI/URL. According to the TDG[1]:
»The link is a general purpose hypertext element. [...]
If it has an xlink:href attribute, link is the equivalent of an
HTML anchor (<html:a href=""...">)" for cross reference
with a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).«
Maybe I didn't understand your argument. But why introduce
another element when there is already a general purpose element
for this issue? :-)
Bye,
Tom
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[1] http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/link.html
