Re: [xml-dev] So maybe ID isn't a problem after all.

["Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>]

 Mike,

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jborden@mediaone.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 11:00 AM
> > To: Champion, Mike; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: Re: [xml-dev] So maybe ID isn't a problem after all.
> >
>
> > so what am I missing?
>
> Maybe nothing, except my wistful hope that we really can do this kind of
> thing with WF XML syntax  rather than DTD syntax someday...

I know what you are getting at, but want to remind people that "well-formed
XML" _includes_ the internal DTD subset and hence all of this can be done
in-band. That said I do understand that many of us want to do this will
pointy brackets and so am sympathetic to the xml:id proposal.

What I am most definitely _not_ sympathetic to is defining a new non-pointy
bracket syntax (e.g. PI based) to accomplish something which is already
obtainable in XML 1.0 itself.

Jonathan