- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:10:46 -0400
- To: Ed Mooney <Ed.Mooney@Sun.COM>
- Cc: bigor@infolio.com, cagle@olywa.net, xml-dist-app@w3.org
I have a suspicion, not carefully considered, that ID= attributes can cause problems when XML is used as a generalized container for other XML. For example, let's consider the case where your e-mail has several attachments, each of them XML, and they make conflicting use of the same ID names. As best I can tell, you can work around this as long as you're careful about what you validate and how, but as I say, I suspect there are some messy edge conditions here. Certainly there are likely to be problems with any tools that take the container document as a whole and try to blindly interpret ID attributes. I have had this same concern for SOAP, for example, insofar as it serves as a generalized packaging framework for assembling XML messages. Not a fatal problem, I think, but probably something that deserves a bit of thought. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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