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RE: Re: determining ID-ness in XML

• From: Leigh Dodds <ldodds@i...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:17:32 +0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@j...]
> Sent: 30 October 2001 01:32
> To: Tim Bray; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Re: determining ID-ness in XML
> 
> [... xml:idatt proposal ...]

I like James' proposal. 

However I'd suggest that the 80/20 split lies at not allowing 
more than one ID attribute per element. (So I'm disagreeing 
with DavidB and DonP, at my peril, I'm sure! :)

This restriction exists for DTDs so it's not a downgrade step.

Or are there are specific use cases that I'm missing?

Cheers,

L.

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