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Re: ID/IDREF is evil

• From: Arjun Ray <arjun.ray@verizon.net>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:52:33 -0500

 On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:36:47 -0800, Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
wrote:

| Because idref is only defined relative to its enclosing document, 
| this means that it's remarkably difficult to create a reference
| to remote entities, meaning that any NIEM document effectively 
| has to contain the entire serialization of all of its objects.


I'm not sure I follow this.  IDREF is far from a general purpose
reference mechanism.  It's for intra-document cross-referencing only.
(See the FPML specs for reasonable use.)  

Too much water has flowed under too many bridges to bring up the
dreaded H-word again, so I'll let it go at that.

• References:
  • ID/IDREF is evil
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: ID/IDREF is evil
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: ID/IDREF is evil
    • From: Arjun Ray <arjun.ray@verizon.net>
  • Re: ID/IDREF is evil
    • From: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>