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On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 12:39, John Cowan wrote: > Simon St.Laurent scripsit: > > > 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. > > Fair enough, but what does this "have to" mean? On pain of invalidity? Pain of ambiguity, I'd call it. If you're crazy enough to use xml:id AND another attribute of type ID, there will be pain down the line, sure enough. As Namespaces in XML didn't modify XML 1.0's rules for validity, introducing a different class of constraints instead, I'd say this probably should go the same route. -- Simon St.Laurent "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue
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