Re: XSchema 1.0 proposals, preparing the ground

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Tue, 07 Jul 1998 14:11:10 -0400


Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> This hasn't been implemented; discussion on it never really took off. It's a
> fairly trivial piece to add. I worry that having both an ID and a name may
> seem confusing, and may be unnecessary since you can refer to pieces through
> XPointer by element type/attribute value and not just ID.

ID/IDREF is more lightweight than full XPointers even though it is
(nearly) subsumed by them (the difference being that an HREF must
begin with "#" or "|" whereas an IDREF may not). I think it's worth
making it easy to use the simpler system.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)