Re: XLink 1.1: Error handling

/ Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> was heard to say:
| * Norman Walsh wrote:
|>| XLink 1.0 does not define error handling behavior. It simply
|>| identifies those situations which are errors and leaves their handling
|>| to the application.
|>|
|>| While the WG recognizes that more detailed information about erorr
|>| handling might be valuable, if consensus could be reached on what that
|>| handling should be in the wide variety of applications that might use
|>| XLink, it does not consider such additions to be within the narrow
|>| scope of its charter for XLink 1.1. Consequently, the WG does not
|>| expect to make any changes with respect to error handling for XLink
|>| 1.1.
|>|
|>| Please let us know if you find this explanation satisfactory.
|
|>Have you had a chance to consider if the explanation above is
|>satisfactory?
|
| Well, from http://www.w3.org/mid/87oe5valhu.fsf@nwalsh.com I understand
| that whenever some element violates XLink 1.1 conformance requirements
| that implementations must behave as if there is no XLink markup relevant
| to the element; could you give a non-compliant fragment where this would
| not apply, i.e., where error handling is not defined? I am not sure yet
| what to make of these responses, but at the moment they seem rather in-
| consistent to me.

This link does not conform to XLink:

  <someElement xlink:type="foobar">foo</someElement>

Nor does this one:

  <someElement xlink:show="foobar">bar</someElement>

Those elements don't conform to 3.2 and therefore per my earlier
suggestion:

  Would the following rewording of point 3 of Section
  3.3 make things clearer?

  3. it applies XLink semantics only to those elments which satisfy
     the markup conformance criteria outlined in [3.2 Markup Confromance].

those elements would not have XLink semantics.


                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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