Re: [xml-dev] is an xml:id attribute a "DTD-determined ID"?

["David A. Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>]

I dont know about Xerces support or XPointer ...
But this link describes whats *supposed* to happen fairly well .. .I had just stumbled on this the other day ..

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/

It talks about using internal or external DTD's to mark the magic xml:id

<!ATTLIST someElement
    xml:id     ID          #IMPLIED

>

And appears to work even though DTD's are not namespace aware.,

David A. Lee
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Richard Salz wrote:

OFF8A3C0BC.7A9F5953-ON85257633.006886F6-85257633.0068F1D8@us.ibm.com" type="cite">

On the one hand, I don't see how xml:id can work, since that's in a 
namespace and DTD's don't understand namespaces. On the other hand, I 
could see how someone might modify their processors to understand it since 
it's (a) in the core namespace; and (b) everyone handles namespaces these 
days.

So I'd consider this a fairly reasonable enhancement request.

        /r$

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