On Wed, 4 May 2005 10:48:31 -0400, "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <[log in to unmask]> said: > > I'd change it to required, and then update it to optional if the W3 > > adopts 1.1. > > So you would advocate mandating that every occurrence of xlink:href="xxx" > be explicitly accompanied by xlink:type="simple"? I would. However, given that the changes proposed for 1.1 of xlink would solve this problem -- that the spec mandates the xlink:type attribute, and that whoever wrote the schema for it didn't like that so used a default attribute instead, which means documents that use xlink but leave out the xlink:type attribute aren't valid without the presence of the schema -- perhaps it's best to just wait a bit and see. Bruce