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RE: Re: determining ID-ness in XML

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• Subject: RE: Re: determining ID-ness in XML
• From: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@r...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:59:06 -0500
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> Let me phrase the question this way: regarding validity and validity 
> only, not the semantics of the attribute, is there any objection to 
> an xml:id attribute that is not equally true of xml:base? So far I 
> can't see one.

That doesn't mean it's right though. I'm not disagreeing with xml:id
so much as the implicit assertion that because something is 
standardized it solves problems in a way acceptable to the masses.

I, for example, find both the stylesheet PI and xml:base to be of
little real value... 

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  • Re: Re: determining ID-ness in XML
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>

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