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Re: [xml-dev] IDs considered harmful or why keys might be better thanIDs...




> Looks like a 3rd application to add to the list (after DocBook, MathML 
> and SOAP). If the list continues to grow, the question might become why 
> these applications have decided not to use (or to use in an invalid way) 
> internal subsets or full DTDs.

There nothing non standard about the internal subset in Docbook or MathML
it's just inconvenient to have an internal subset with a few hundred ID
declarations in, and not much more convenent to arrange to just have the
ones that are actually used in the document. 

David

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