- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:48:40 -0500
- To: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>, public-xml-id@w3.org, "'xom-interest'" <xom-interest@lists.ibiblio.org>, "'Wolfgang Hoschek'" <whoschek@lbl.gov>
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:40:21PM +0000, Richard Tobin wrote:
>
> > Even so the test suite suggests the ID should be registered.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "registered". If you mean recognised as
> an ID and normalised as one, then yes. This is (by design) the same
> as for an ID attribute declared in a DTD: validity does not affect
> normalisation or type assignment.
And that's how we end up with software expecting id('1234') or
id('foo bar') to work in XPath. I still think it's a disaster to
let this go though while we had the opportunity to block it and
force the cleanup for xml:id
Daniel
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