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

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

> 
> Mike's argument that it requires a DTD is begging the question. There's
> nothing inherently wrong or evil about DTDs, which is more than can be
> said for other expressions of document structure :-)
> 

I avoid DTDs if I can for three reasons:

(a) I can never remember the syntax
(b) I can never understand the errors when I get it wrong
(c) they don't survive XSLT transformation.

Michael Kay
Saxonica