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RE: XSchema: existing ID attributes considered harmful (was: XSchema Spe

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <SimonStL@c...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Wed, 17 Jun 98 12:56:48 UT

The chorus has spoken:
>> > In aid of this, I am PROPOSING that we not use any ID attributes
>> > in XSchema 1.0; change the "id ID #REQUIRED" attributes in ElementDecl
>> > elements to "name NMTOKEN #REQUIRED" instead.  That will allow us
>> > to reserved XML IDs for structure-sharing.
>> 
>> I like this idea.
>
>Ditto.  It looks like the XSchema app is going to have to do half the work 
>anyway, so there's no point in limiting ourselves with IDs.

I'll make the change.  I think this opens up XSchema dramatically, making 
possible and eventually compatible the currently-proposed nested model, Paul's 
rule based model, and several of the ideas I've seen for re-creating parameter 
entities. 

The key in my mind remains making the declarations referenceable; the rest we 
can handle in successive specifications as needed.  I think we have a great 
start here.

Simon St.Laurent
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