[tei-council] url vs xlink:href

[James Cummings]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> surely @url and @target are the same thing? as it stands in P5, we only 
> have @target

Ah ok, it probably hasn't been updated in the draft I have (from your 
debian packages), hence my confusion.

> its probably <graphic> which is out of sync, and should be xlink:xref

Ah, ok.

> that whole business of SVG inside <graphic>/<figure> seems to me merely 
> illustrative and not TEI normative in any sense

That is what I thought, but wanted to be sure.

> maybe.  it would conform with the depressing state of using xml:id, 
> xml:lang and xml:base, and make
> my life even more difficult by making practically every TEI document use 
> _3_ namespaces

True.  XLink doesn't seemed to have ever had the popular support in 
implementation as the other recommendations.  Is this a reason to avoid it?

-James
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