- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:54:09 +0200
fantasai wrote: > I'd like to suggest that ID attributes use a different syntax > than [] to mark repetition placeholders, one that fits with the > XML restrictions on IDs. The current syntax makes it impossible > to define ID attributes as "type ID" in any of the three major > XML validation schemas, which affects both the usefulness of > authoring tools that rely on IDness (e.g. for navigational tags > or for catching duplication and referential errors) and the > integrity of other specs (such as the CSS 2.1 specification) that > rely on such definitions. I agree that that is better. > I don't care what the syntax is (I suggest :-replaceable-: for > lack of anything better), and it doesn't have to apply to other > attributes where [replaceable] is more natural. Pretty much anything could do, but I'll note that ":" is not a WF ID when namespaces are in effect. -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/
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