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At 01:34 AM 25/10/01 -0700, Ronald Bourret wrote: >There are only two ways to determine if an attribute is an ID attribute: > >1) From a DTD or XML Schema >2) The attribute name is hard-coded in your application > >You cannot just look at an attribute and decide if it is an ID >attribute. Yes, and this is one of our really big outstanding serious architectural problems. It's really important for the workings of the web that an address such as http://example.com/foo#Chapter12 have well-defined semantics. If foo turns out to be XML, this is hopelessly underdefined. At various times James Clark and I have both suggested that we just brutally hijack the attribute name "id" and assert that it is of DTD type ID. Other ideas have included using xml:id or having a reserved namespace http://w3.org/xmlid or some such; any attribute associated with it is of type ID. This one isn't going to go away. -Tim
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