Re: [xml-dev] XPointer crisis

Leigh Dodds sent me some very useful pointers that summarize earlier discussion on this topic. The following XML Deviant article includes proposals by James Clark, and Tim Bray:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/07/id.html

The following contains various proposals for xml:id attribute, etc. It is slightly outdated, but contains messages for/against each option:

http://weblogs.userland.com/eclectic/xml-identifiers.html

Hope this helps anyone else who, like me, missed the initial debate.

Jonathan