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> -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...] > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:41 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: So maybe ID isn't a problem after all. > > > > So where's the problem? When you're trying to process an > XLink/XPointer into something and the only thing you know > about it is that it's XML. I'd like to use getElementById() in well-formed XML, or when processing instances of a DTD I don't control but for which I "know" that a certain attribute has unique values. If I could easily slip in an id-ness declaration out of band somehow, the DOM implementation will do a fair amount of work for me that is tedious to do by hand. I'm not a heavy user of XSLT, but I suspect that a similar use case exists for the id() function.
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