- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:09:48 -0500
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-xml-id@w3.org
Norman Walsh wrote: > This issue already exists. Consider: > > <!DOCTYPE test SYSTEM "test.dtd"> > <test id=" test "/> > I think Ian's practical issue here is in web browser's with JavaScript and the like (Ian, please correct me if I'm misreading you.) In these cases I think there is no current issue. All such browsers, as far as I'm aware, do not read the external DTD subset, and therefore do not normalize this as an ID type attribute. If some web browsers start recognizing xml:id and others don't, then a problem arises. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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