[xml-dev] IDs without DTD/Schema , Is there a way ?

[BigBoss <dianda@sec.di.unipi.it>]

Greetings, we have a little problem with ID, we need to identify the IDs
in an XML Document but not always we got a DTD or a Schema to work with,
I include the original question of a friend of mine (little more
technical and platform dependent) 
					Thanks
					  fd 
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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:19:03 +0200
From: Mauro Arcolini <arcolini@sec.di.unipi.it>
To: BigBoss <dianda@sec.di.unipi.it> 
Subject: Xerces-J

Hi,
I have a problem with xml Document retrieve function using Xerces-J 
dom package. After parsing without validating, i must to retrieve an
element with a specific attribute(of type ID) value. It don't seems a
good idea to traverse all attributes list of each element in document
object to retrieve the element. Is exists an other way in DOM? Maybe in
Sax model? 

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