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John Cowan wrote: > > Do you have inside information on this? The published XPointer draft > encourages the use of ID, because it provides an unambiguous > set of anchors; indeed, ID is supported directly, whereas other > attribute values are supported only through the general attribute > machinery. I have no information on this. IDREF is ignored by XLink. You can't use an element with an IDREF attribute as an XLink. The use of ID is indeed encouraged, but I will be very curious to see how it will be managed with parsers that can optionally skip attribute declarations. Depending on your parser, your XLinks could start breaking because IDs may or may not be flagged as such. XML processing would be much simpler if we had stuck strictly to the "no options" rule. Of course XPointer would also support my proposed variant of ID, but would do so through the general attribute mechanism. This is not a burden, because the whole point of my ID variant is to allow the author to specify which IDSpace she is interested in. Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco Three things are most perilous: Connectors that corrode Unproven algorithms, and self-modifying code http://www.geezjan.org/humor/computers/threes.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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