[closed] Comments by CSS WG on WD-xml-id-20040407

> A brief discussion of the new draft by the CSS working group led to
> the following two comments:
>
> 1. It seems unclear what the processing of xml:id should be in the
> presence of Schemas or DTDs that do not specify that xml:id is of type
> ID. Is that an error? Or do you end up with a case where an element has
> one id in a validating parser scenario and another in a non-validating
> parser scenario?

I believe we have clarified the spec on that point: it is a validity
error.

> 2. We think the test suite for this specification should include tests
> that check that CSS UAs support xml:id interoperably.

I have constructed a test for this purpose.

> Hopefully these comments will be of help for the next version of the
> draft.

Thank you for taking the time to review the draft, we appreciate your
comments.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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