XML events & id

Hi all,

I don't know the solution to this problem, nor am I sure anybody does, but 
using ID/IDREF to reference elements outside the xml-events namespace has 
issues.

The problem is that outer namespaces may use a different id syntax than 
does XHTML.  Without a DTD or Schema, there's no way to know which 
attribute is of type ID.  So the "target" attribute (or any IDREF) cannot 
reliably be used without a dtd/schema.

FWIW, this wasn't a problem when the draft was about XHTML Events, because 
XHTML provided the necessary context for interpreting ids (though not for 
host & integration set documents, I guess).

MB

Mark Baker, CSO, Planetfred.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.
mbaker@planetfred.com