On 5/8/2017 4:31 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
Ah. Sorry! I use them all the time, and stepped to the wrong place in the conversation. I'm not sure what's driving other people's fondness for them.[snip] I'm sorry, I expressed myself badly. Yes, of course you *can* use them, and there are obviously special circumstances when they make sense, but I am increasingly seeing them used as ID/IDREF type links, especially in TEI, and I thought perhaps something I had missed was making this necessary.