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At 2:59 PM +0000 10/29/01, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >XPointer already has a provision for short forms (i.e. ...#xyzzy). > >I guess it depends on how you see the fix being expressed: is it a >fix to XML 1.0 plus Namespaces that some formulation determines the >type of some attribute as ID? Or is it that #xyzzy points to IDs _or_ >values of attributes picked out by some formulation? > >If the former, then XPointer doesn't need to change. > >If the latter, then it does. > I was proposing the latter. >Independently of the impact on XPointer, if we're doing this at all I >_much_ prefer the former -- I want these things to really _be_ of type >ID, not some partial simulacrum thereof. > Unfortunately we can't make them really of type ID sans-DTD unless we change XML 1.0. It's a little late to do that. It would be much easier to change XPointer at this moment in time. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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