[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: IDs considered harmful or why keys might be better than ID
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 02:40 am, Jeff Greif wrote: > The ability of IDs in conjunction with IDREFs to tie together parts of a > document not in hierarchical relationship is valuable. The uniqueness of > IDs may or may not be of interest in such a case (non-unique IDs may > simulate the class attribute used in HTML). Sure, but the non-heirarchical linking is not exclusively possible using ID/IDREF pairs. You can define your own structures that do this just as easily... and for a lot of *text*, ID/IDREF pairs are totally insufficient. Again, beyond validation I've NEVER found the ID/IDREF information useful.
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