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Re: Comments on xml:id CR

From: Dieter Köhler <d.k@philo.de>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 19:30:13 +0200
Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20050612192306.01f73b70@pop3.philo.de>
To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
Cc: public-xml-id@w3.org


>| 3. The next paragraph on updating the "reference" infoset property 
>should IMHO
>| be amented by a note which warns the reader that -- according to the infoset
>| spec -- for xml:id attributes the "references" property has no value 
>when the
>| attribute is syntactically incorrect or when it is not unique in the 
>document.
>
>Could you be persuaded that the phrase "approprate referential
>properties" covers that case? I'm concerned that the additional note
>might raise more questions than it answers.

Not really, because it covers only "other" appropriate referential 
properties. What about:

"If appropriate, an xml:id processor should update the references and other 
referential infoset properties to reflect the results of ID assignment."

Best regards,

Dieter  
Received on Sunday, 12 June 2005 17:32:59 GMT

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