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Steven R. Newcomb wrote: > AFs can work if you don't have a DTD, which can be > quite important in XML-land. Of course, in that case, > you have to provide the AF information in each > element's attributes. If there's no schema, there's no > other way, is there? With SGML, you can also use IMPLICIT LINK. This way the architectural control attributes don't have to clutter up the DTD either. (The downside is that, with most existing tools, the <!LINKTYPE> declaration has to appear in the document instance. I've always thought it would be useful to allow LINK declarations to be specified as an argument to the parser; although the SGML Standard doesn't say you can do this, it doesn't say you *can't* either.) (I've also always thought that the AFDR is simply a reformulation of what EXPLICIT LINK was trying to do all along. It's too bad the latter was so fatally flawed; the syntax was rather nice IMO.) --Joe English jenglish@f...
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