Re: xml:id versus xmlid

Norman Walsh wrote:

> I think it follows from "The prefix xml is by definition bound to the
> namespace name http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace." in the namespaces
> recommendation.

It's quite clear from the context of that statement that it's referring 
to bindings in XML documents. It has nothing to say about non-XML 
contexts such as XPath expressions and Java libraries.

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