Hi Ron, On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 08:53, Ron Daniel wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > Currently, DTDs and XML Schemas are the only W3C-specified means > of declaring that an attribute is of type ID. Citing them as the > normative means of determing ID-ness seems to hit about a 90/10 > tradeoff for interoperation. I strongly disagree with this for two reasons: 1) This is creating specs with potential dead locks that become difficult to update (imagine the W3C creating next year a new mecanism to define IDs, you would have to update XPointer to accomodate this new spec). 2) In a world of open specifications, I find it not acceptable to lock a specification to use only specifications from the owner organization. Other specs from other specifications might define IDs and I don't see the point of blocking them. There are cases when references need to be normative for technical reasons, but I don't this this is the case here and making these refs normative seems only either an editorial or a political decision! Eric -- Did you know it? Python has now a Relax NG (partial) implementation. http://advogato.org/proj/xvif/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Wednesday, 16 October 2002 03:17:30 GMT
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