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> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher R. Maden [mailto:crism@m...] > Sent: 06 November 2001 05:42 > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: Re: determining ID-ness in XML > [...] > Not really. Most applications that need references use them explicitly; > e.g., they do something like id(@idref) in an XPath. In SGML, ID and > IDREF(S) were subject to the same case normalization rules, but since > that's gone in XML, it's not an issue any more. A validator needs to > ensure that all IDREFs are valid, but we're only considering the case of > non-validating parsers. I don't follow. I was simply suggesting that if we're providing the ability to declare unique identifiers outside of a DTD, then it seems reasonable to be able to declare cross-references as well. The 'XML processor' will be checking uniqueness of the identifiers, so it'd be a snap to check that cross-references are correct as well. L. -- Leigh Dodds, Research Group, Ingenta | "Pluralitas non est ponenda http://weblogs.userland.com/eclectic | sine necessitate" http://www.xml.com/pub/xmldeviant | -- William of Ockham
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