> Let me phrase the question this way: regarding validity and validity
> only, not the semantics of the attribute, is there any objection to
> an xml:id attribute that is not equally true of xml:base? So far I
> can't see one.
That doesn't mean it's right though. I'm not disagreeing with xml:id
so much as the implicit assertion that because something is
standardized it solves problems in a way acceptable to the masses.
I, for example, find both the stylesheet PI and xml:base to be of
little real value...
