RE: [xml-dev] IDs considered harmful or why keys might be better thanIDs...

> Ok I stand corrected. Internal subsets are easy to use and
> well supported as
> you and john cowan, michael kay and others say.
>
> So why do we need _another_ mechanism to declare IDs?
>
Well, one reason is that an XML document produced as the output of an XSLT
transformation will never have an internal subset.

Mike Kay