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

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

> ... to me it's seemed odd to generate warnings _by default_ about
> constructs that by definition are no problem.  Warn if the second
> (ignored) declaration conflicts with the first one, sure -- there's a
> chance that might actually indicate a problem.

That's as maybe but I don't write parsers, I only uses them:

bash-2.02$ rxp -sV id.xml
Warning: Ignoring redeclaration of attribute id
 in unnamed entity at line 2 char 27 of file:///c:/tmp/id.dtd

David

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