- From: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:57:08 +0000 (GMT)
- To: veillard@redhat.com, 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>
> > 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
If it had been changed, it would have been the only case where the
type of an attribute depended on its value.
-- Richard
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