Re: Validating IDREFS...

Michael Kay (M.H.Kay@eng.icl.co.uk)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:43:21 +0100

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>The whole point of ID and IDREF is to have a simple
intra-document
>link, so that documents that have non-hierarchical natural
structures
>can be fitted into SGML/XML hierarchies

Indeed so. And the real difficulty with them is not the
inconvenience to parser writers, but the fact that they are
incompatible with XPointer.

Mike Kay

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