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




Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:

> Again, beyond validation I've NEVER found the ID/IDREF information useful.

This from the guy who built the wonderful CONREF support into DynaText...:-)
That was a _very_ sweet use of ID information.


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