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RE: A unique ID question ?

• From: "DuCharme, Robert" <DuCharmR@m...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:51:39 -0500

>I was wondering if the value of an ID attribute has to be unique within a 
>document or only within a fragment.

>From the "ID" validity constraint in section 3.3.1 of the spec
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-attribute-types): "A name must not appear
more than once in an XML document as a value of this type; i.e., ID values
must uniquely identify the elements which bear them."

Bob DuCharme       www.snee.com/bob       <bob@  
snee.com>  see www.snee.com/bob/xmlann for "XML:
The Annotated Specification" from Prentice Hall.

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