A link element may contain optional
xlink:role
and xlink:title
attributes that describe the remote resource, that is, the
document or other resource to which the link points
The title contains a short plain text description.
The role contains a URI pointing to a long description.
<AUTHOR
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:href="mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu"
xlink:title="Send email to Elliotte Rusty Harold"
xlink:role="http://www.macfaq.com/personal.html">
Please drop me a line.
</AUTHOR>
As with all other attributes, the
xlink:title
and xlink:role
attributes should be declared in the DTD for all the
elements to which they belong. For example, this is a
reasonable declaration for the above AUTHOR
element:
<!ELEMENT AUTHOR (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST AUTHOR
xmlns:xlink CDATA #FIXED "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:type CDATA #FIXED "simple"
xlink:href CDATA #REQUIRED
xlink:title CDATA #IMPLIED
xlink:role CDATA #IMPLIED
>