Re: xml:id implementation report [was: Agenda for XML Core WG telcon of 2005 January 19]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:51:15AM -0500, Paul Grosso wrote:
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> > Subject: Agenda for XML Core WG telcon of 2005 January 19
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> 
> > 7. xml:id.
> 
> > 
> > ACTION to Paul:  Create a (public) implementation report page.
> 
> I put up a shell at:
> http://www.w3.org/XML/2005/01/xml-id-implementation.html
> 
> Norm, Daniel, please tell me what I should put in there
> for your entries.

Sure:
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  The libxml2 library has had support for xml:id since version 2.6.9
released Apr 18 2004. The support is switched on by default, and xml:id
attributes when not in error are handled like DTD ID attributes. As a
result they are available as ID for libxml2 XPath, XPointer implementation,
as well as for XSLT, XML DSig and other tools or languages based on
the libxml2 library since then.
  URL: http://xmlsoft.org/
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This mean most recent linux version embbed at least one xml:id implementation,
and possibly the last Mac OS X version (I don't know what version they
shipped). Since it's simple enough it should not raise compatibility issues.
I also note I didn't got a single problem reported about xml:id since 
it was plugged in libxml2.

Daniel

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Received on Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:19:06 UTC