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> -----Original Message----- > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:31 AM > To: Champion, Mike; xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: Re: determining ID-ness in XML > > > Ever inscribe Arabic numerals into stone? Requirements > count. Thanks for elucidating a requirement that Roman numerals fufill better than Arabic! I hadn't thought of that ... and it does explain why you tend to see Roman numerals on cornerstones and tombstones... Anyway, SGML *is* best for inscribing documents into "stone" so that they can be read in 20 or 50 years. XML evolved from it to meet use cases requiring messages enscribed in "paper", and finding and cross-referencing information is more important than persisting it forever. xml:id is being proposed because the requirement of cross referencing information easily outweighs the requirement to leverage the SGML standards in many XML applications these days.
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