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On Monday, October 29, 2001, at 11:53 AM, Tim Bray wrote: > [Trying to keep this one on both xml-dev & ietf-xml-mime] > > At 08:40 AM 29/10/01 -0600, Paul Grosso wrote: >> Here are some options (all discussed before): >> 1. use the internal subset to declare IDs > > #1 is minimal-impact. Can it be sold? I.e., if you > want the "name" attr to be an ID, then you need the following > at the top of the file with a line for each element type > that "name" can appear on: > > <!DOCTYPE rootType [ > <!ATTLIST element1 name ID #IMPLIED> > <!ATTLIST element2 name ID #IMPLIED> > ... etc... > ]> > > I'm not sure it's going to be easy to get the community to > buy into this. Wouldn't this have even deeper implications? By this I mean that a validating parser won't validate a document that has no DOCTYPE references (treats it simply as well-formed), but *will* try to validate a document in an all-or-nothing fashion if there is. Simply identifying an ATTLIST won't be enough because the 'rootType' element won't be defined. Just seems really kludgey to me. --Tom
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