Re: [Docutils-users] XLink as a solution for references

[Schimon J. <sc...@fe...>]

Thank you for your helpful respond.

Schimon

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 07:25:29 -0000 (UTC)
Guenter Milde via Docutils-users <doc...@li...>
wrote:

> On 2025-10-07, Schimon Jehudah via Docutils-users wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 18:41:51 -0000 (UTC)
> > Guenter Milde via Docutils-users wrote:  
> >> On 2025-10-06, Schimon Jehudah via Docutils-users wrote:  
> >> >> On 2025-09-28, Schimon Jehudah via Docutils-users wrote:    
> 
> >> >> > XLink might be helpful for both, Atom and (X)HTML, in order to
> >> >> > set accurate links to references.      
> 
> >> I don't think using XLink will give advantages to (X)HTML, as
> >> browser support is missing.  
> ...
> 
> > XLink is fine to them, for toying with SVG ...  
> 
> Sorry for beeing ambiguous. My response was intended to mean:
> 
>   I don't think using XLink will give advantages to 
>   *Docutils (X)HTML writers*, 
>   as it XLink is not part of the various HTML standards 
>   and browser support is missing.
>   
> 
> > Also, XLink has no format of its own, and it is meant to be
> > incorporated into existing formats.  
> 
> As docutils.dtd is designed for extensibility, it should be easy
> for interested parties to derive a custom document type with, e.g., 
> a <link> element supporting XLink syntax.
> 
>   
> Günter  
>