Re: [xml-dev] Who Is Teaching XML To Technical Writers?

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

On 13/08/2012 14:21, Len Bullard wrote:
> If IDs are a problem for the technical writers/taggers, one might assume
> DTDs are in the mix.  Yet even as one of the world's very top experts,
> you didn't.
I certainly wouldn't assume that an attribute called "id" is declared as 
an ID unless I have evidence that this is the case, especially if the 
information about the XML comes from one of the world's very top experts.

But more importantly, I still think that seeing two duplicate IDs is not 
evidence of a problem with the way the technical writers/taggers have 
been trained, it is a problem with the tools they are using. The tools 
should stop it happening.

Michael Kay
Saxonica