Re: XSchema: existing ID attributes considered harmful (was: XSchema Spec Section 2.2, Draft 1)

Ron Bourret (rbourret@dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:33:15 +0200


Paul Prescod wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, John Cowan wrote:
>
> [snip...]
>
> > In aid of this, I am PROPOSING that we not use any ID attributes
> > in XSchema 1.0; change the "id ID #REQUIRED" attributes in ElementDecl
> > elements to "name NMTOKEN #REQUIRED" instead. That will allow us
> > to reserved XML IDs for structure-sharing.
>
> I like this idea.

Ditto. It looks like the XSchema app is going to have to do half the work
anyway, so there's no point in limiting ourselves with IDs.

-- Ron Bourret