possible xml:id erratum [was: Agenda for XML Core WG telcon of 2009 May 6]

Re:

> Richard, Norm, DV, John, HT had a vigorous discussion during
> our telcon of April 22 that we did not complete.  We will need 
> to continue this in email.

I see no reason to discuss this again this week unless we have
had some prior discussion in email.

At the moment, the status quo is not to process any erratum
in this area.  

(There are a couple unrelated outstanding editorial errata 
that Henry is actioned to process.)

paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-xml-core-wg-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-xml-core-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Grosso, Paul
> Sent: Monday, 2009 May 04 9:52
> To: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Agenda for XML Core WG telcon of 2009 May 6

> 7.  xml:id
> 
> The xml:id Recommendation is at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xml-id-20050909/
> 
> John Cowan submitted a proposed erratum at
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2009Jan/0009
> 
> At one point we thought we had Consensus:  
> The sentence "A document that uses xml:id attributes
> that have a declared type other than xs:ID will always generate 
> xml:id errors" in Appendix D.3 should be deleted.
> 
> But they we reconsidered.  Henry sent further email at
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2009Apr/0048
> 
> Richard, Norm, DV, John, HT had a vigorous discussion during
> our telcon of April 22 that we did not complete.  We will need 
> to continue this in email.
> 
> We did agree that applying xml:id processing does not have
> any impact on the DTD/XSD validity of the document.
> 
> Richard pointed out the following note in XML Base
> (just before section 3.1):
> 
>  This specification does not give the xml:base attribute
>  any special status as far as XML validity is concerned.
>  In a valid document the attribute must be declared in
>  the DTD, and similar considerations apply to other schema
>  languages.
> 
> and suggested a similar note should go into xml:id in D.1.

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