[tei-council] url vs xlink:href

[Sebastian Rahtz]

John A. Walsh wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This may have been discussed before I recently joined the council, but 
> is there a reason why P5 uses "url" instead of "xlink:href" for its 
> general purpose linking attribute?
>
sow09:

"This has since been rejected once it was
  realized that in TEI this attribute can point to multiple
  places (i.e., is of type <ident
 type="datatype">tei.pointers</ident>), unlike the HTML
            attribute which can only point to one element."

You may well argue that we should make the ability to point to multiple 
places
be a special case, or not allowed at all.

The endless problems caused by trying to implement xml:lang and xml:id
make me feel decidely against xlink:href. "href" would be plausible, 
bearing in
mind the above.

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