xml:id One Step Away From Being a Recommendation

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xml:id One Step Away From
Being a Recommendation

Bob DuCharme, O'Reilly
Developer Weblogs

 

I've often said that greater
possibilities for addressing resources

and points within resources
means greater possibilities for linking,

and the new predefined
attribute 'xml:id' can make a lot of

straightforward, simple
addressing of points within documents easier.

There are apparently some
potential architectural problems, though.

If this proposed W3C
specification got this far under your own radar,

you owe it to yourself to
check out discussions of its good and bad

points [written in articles]
by David Megginson, Norm Walsh, their

readers who contributed
comments, and, more recently, Elliotte Rusty

Harold.     

 

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7394

See also the W3C news item: http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item97

 

Rob Philpott

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RSA Security Inc.

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