[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
, 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 for an email address within .
Colin
On 7/24/07, tom_schr@web.de <tom_schr@web.de> 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
>
>
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