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Re: Re: determining ID-ness in XML

• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• To: James Clark <jjc@j...>, Tim Bray <tbray@t...>,xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:02:24 -0800

> An alternative would be to have an attribute that declares the name of the 
> attribute that is an ID attribute, say xml:idatt. To make this useable, 
> xml:idatt would be inherited.  

Good idea -- so long as there's a sibling "xml:idatts", so that multiple
attributes can be defined as defining IDs.  I really do not like the
arbitrary restriction that elements may not have IDs defined for more
than one purpose.

- Dave

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