Re: XML Validity and DTD dependance

/ Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> was heard to say:
[...]
| As I said in my other message, you seem to want a term for "well-formed
| and has unique IDs".

In which case, two problems remain: (1) what *are* the IDs and (2)
are they unique.

To answer the first question, we (almost) have xml:id

This document has no IDs:

 <foo id="bar"/>

But this one does:

 <foo xml:id="bar"/>

And to answer the second question, an xml:id processor should tell you
if the IDs are unique. It would be entirely conformant to write one
that always told you if they were unique.

Problem solved?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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