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Re: [xml-dev] ID-ness in XML
On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 12:39, John Cowan wrote:
> Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
>
> > I'd make xml:id something that can be used with or without a DTD. If
> > used in a DTD, it would have to be declared of type ID and would have to
> > be the only ID on any given attribute. That seems to avoid a lot of
> > pain to me.
>
> Fair enough, but what does this "have to" mean? On pain of invalidity?
Pain of ambiguity, I'd call it. If you're crazy enough to use xml:id
AND another attribute of type ID, there will be pain down the line, sure
enough.
As Namespaces in XML didn't modify XML 1.0's rules for validity,
introducing a different class of constraints instead, I'd say this
probably should go the same route.
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Simon St.Laurent
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue