Re: New xml:id draft, same old URI

/ Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> was heard to say:
|> The new draft is at
|> 
|>   http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/xmlcore/xmlid/xml-id.html
|
| Section 4 looks much better.
|
| There might be some doubt about this:
|
|   The attribute's value is normalized according to the rules for
|   attribute-value normalization on attributes of type ID.
|
| Processors (like Norm's) that operate on an already-parsed document
| will get xml:id attribute values that have already been normalized
| according to the numbered list in section 3.3.3 of the XML spec.  They
| only need to perform the additional normalization approriate to
| tokenized attributes.  In particular, they mustn't do anything to
| non-#x20 whitespace or apparent character or entity references.

That was the point of "on attributes of type ID". I was assuming that
implementors working with parsed documents would already know that some
normalization had occurred. I'll see if I can clarify that.

How's this:

<p>The attributeʼs value is normalized according to the rules
for <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize">attribute-value
normalization</loc> on attributes of type ID. For <att>xml:id</att>
processors operating on an infoset or some other output from an XML parser,
the value will already be normalized, but it may still be necessary for
the processor to trim leading and trailing space (#x20) characters and
replace sequences of space characters by a single space.</p>

Updated draft online.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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