Re: [xml-dev] Re: determining ID-ness in XML

[Rob Lugt <roblugt@elcel.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> However, we are not saying that every application has to use xml:id.
Certainly not every application uses xml:space or xml:lang today, much less
xml:base. If the XHTML folks don't want xml:id in their XHTML documents,
they don't have to use it. They don't change their DTDs. In fact, they
really don't need to change them because conformant XHTML documents already
have a DTD, and do have ID type attributes.
>
> Remember, the reason we're having this discussion is because not all XML
documents have DTDs. It is precisely those without DTDs where xml:id is
needed, and these applications can start using xml:id  immediately because
they don't have a DTD to change! or even if they do, they don't require
validity.
>
Good point. But isn't this discussion also about XML documents that have
been stripped of their DTD for whatever reason?  There is a practice where
XML documents are validated before being stripped of their DTD for
transmission.

~Rob