XLink's "xml:link" to be "xlink:form"


From owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk Tue May  5 18:44:53 1998
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 19:33:27 -0400
From: "Eve L. Maler" <elm@arbortext.com>
Subject: Re: [xX][mM][lL] is reserved

At 01:54 PM 5/5/98 -0400, Chris Maden wrote:

>However, one side effect of this is that a conformant XML 1.0
>processor may reject a conformant XLink document for using "xml:link"
>as an attribute name.

FYI, because of the namespace work, we voted to change the xml:link attribute to xlink:form, though this doesn't appear in the spec yet. You'll see it in the next draft. (No, I'm not sure when that will be. :-)

Eve



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