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Re: ID attribute defaults

• From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@d...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:49:41 -0600

At 02:41 PM 11/11/98 -0500, John E. Simpson wrote:

>What am I missing? Is there some way both to use ID/IDREF *and* not require
>the document author to supply IDs on her own?

It's my personal feeling that the inability to provide defaults for ID,
IDREF(S), and ENTITY(IES) attributes is a bug (in SGML unavoidably
inherited by XML).  Document type designers should be able choose for
themselves what does and doesn't make sense in their applications.

Cheers,

E.
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