Re: [xml-dev] ID/IDREF is evil

[George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com>]

Hi Mike,

I am not sure I understand the need for DTDs... You can use xs:ID and 
xs:IDREF/xs:IDREFS in XML Schema, isn't it? And <data type="ID"/>, etc. 
in Relax NG.

Best Regards,
George
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On 2/6/14, 11:28 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
> On 5 Feb 2014, at 21:55, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
>
> > Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> writes:
> > > I can think of plenty of reasons not to use ID/IDREF without that one.
> > > #1 being that you need one of those ghastly DTDs.
> > Not if you name your ID attributes 'xml:id'.
> Doesn't help on the IDREF side...
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
>
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