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Re: ID/IDREF is evil

• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
• Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:53:43 +0000

> 
> Mike's argument that it requires a DTD is begging the question. There's
> nothing inherently wrong or evil about DTDs, which is more than can be
> said for other expressions of document structure :-)
> 

I avoid DTDs if I can for three reasons:

(a) I can never remember the syntax
(b) I can never understand the errors when I get it wrong
(c) they don't survive XSLT transformation.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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  • ID/IDREF is evil
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
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    • From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>