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At 08:35 AM 05/17/1999 +0100, Martin Bryan wrote: >[I] wrote > >>Would it be fair to say that the behavior attribute of an XLinking element >is intended to function as a sort of localized (element-context-specific) >PI -- a trigger to XLink-smart processors that is ignorable by others? If >so, in what way is such an attribute more problematic than actual PIs? > >The key point about the behaviour attribute is that it is instance specific, >rather than element-context-specific. (You can deal with all >element-context-specific problems in the stylesheet; it is instance specific >changes that are the difficult ones to control without passing some form of >control parameter.) Instance-specific? That sounds totally wrong to me, even given your own suggestion for the attribute's value (i.e., a URI). "Instance-specific" says to me, "true of this document instance," not "true of this element instance" -- the latter's what I meant when I said element-context-specific. In the latter case, a style sheet could *not* be used to establish behavior because there'd be no selector on the specific occurrence. It'd be like relegating href value assignment to a style sheet, no? The value to be used for a specific occurrence of that sort of behavior is not obtainable from the "meaning" of the tree structure at that point. Which value to use would be known to the author (human or otherwise), as a function of the "meaning" of that occurrence of that element, but unable to be communicated to a downstream application using other XLink (or style sheet selector) means. At 09:04 AM 05/17/1999 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >I'm starting to wonder if it isn't time to wait and see what the next >(supposedly soon) draft says. Yeah. I regret raising the question when I did... think I'll shut up now and see what the WG's come up with for ver. 2. ========================================================== John E. Simpson | The secret of eternal youth simpson@p... | is arrested development. http://www.flixml.org | -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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