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Re: ID-ness in XML

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: ID-ness in XML
• From: Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>
• Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:59:12 +1100
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Organization: Allette Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd
• References: <3BEDADF2.4634F820@a...> <1005439897.838.5.camel@l...>

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:

> I'd make xml:id something that can be used with or without a DTD.  If
> used in a DTD, it would have to be declared of type ID and would have to
> be the only ID on any given attribute.  That seems to avoid a lot of
> pain to me.

That's fine for new DTDs and datasets, but it invalidates any existing
documents that use an ID attribute named anything except xml:id. The result
would be that we would be hardcoding attribute names, wouldn't it?


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Marcus Carr                      email:  mrc@a...
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