[sc34wg3] XLink support in XTM

[Jirka Kosek]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>  - The XLink support forces us to add the xlink:type attribute to all
>    XTM elements that have XLinks on them. Without this attribute the
>    links will not actually be valid XLinks, but nobody adds this
>    attribute. In the DTD you can make it #FIXED, but unless people
>    refer to the DTD that won't help, and with some parsers even that
>    won't help, and if it does help you're guaranteed that someone
>    sooner or later will use that document somewhere where the DTD isn't
>    found and trouble ensues.

This is not longer true. XLink 1.1 (http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink11/) will 
make xlink:type="simple" default if it is not specified.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink11/#att-method (the very last paragraph 
before section 4.1).

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