- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:17:15 +0100
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, public-xml-id@w3.org
Elliotte Harold writes:
> Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>> Having maintained and developed a large Java XML API for some years, I
>> agree that the xml namespace and prefix require special casing. That
>> special casing took work. That work is done. The marginal cost of
>> supporting xml:id given that the work has been done is tiny.
>
> If I were to take the time to produce a list of existing APIs and
> tools in which that work has not been done, would this convince you to
> support xmlid instead of xml:id?
No, because that work _still_ needs to be done, and should be done,
because there's no chance xml:lang, xml:space and xml:base will be
rolled back.
ht
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