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



On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 18:06, Marcus Carr wrote:
> Yes, that would be okay, but as the responsibility for uniqueness is shifted from the
> ID to the xml:id, the system is still going to have to cope - none of the old
> documents have xml:id, so documents would need to be considered in the context of the
> DTD as it was at the time. It's still a change to the DTD, the system and possibly
> the users' applications.

Of course!  But I don't think there's any around that if we think having
things around called "ID" is a good idea.

This just seems to me like the least painful way to do it.  

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue