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 On 01/10/30 7:18 AM, "Don Park" <donpark@d...> wrote: >> An alternative would be to have an attribute that declares the >> name of the attribute that is an ID attribute, say xml:idatt. > > Aye. One more vote for xml:idatt. I prefer its value to be a list of zero > or more XML names. Nested xml:idatt should override inherited list > completely. > > One serious problem is the namespace issue which is further complicated when > dealing with a list of attribute names belonging to multiple namespaces. I agree that xml:idatt is the best idea so far. However, I would prefer this to be defined on a namespace basis. Something like ns:xml:idatt -- just like regular attributes (an xml:idatt would apply to the unspecified namespace namespace or whatever it is called and is would be equivalent to the original proposal I think). If this was the rule, then any attribute named would necessarily be in the same (attribute) namespace. Adding/removing of attributes becomes localised to a namespace, nobody has to know about anything other than their own namespace. I'm a little concerned with the list manipulation requirements being place on tools that generate XML -- the contents of an xml:idatt seems to be seriously dependent on the document in question, the tools (and humans) will have to consider attributes designated by other namespaces. (Obviously I think the idatts in practice will be associated with namespaces). > > Don Park 
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