- From: Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:05:48 -0700
- To: "XProc WG" <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
Based on what I've heard so far, here is the most inclusive proposal:
* We add an option called "scheme" that defaults to "integer". All other
values are implementation defined. A minimally conforming implementation
must support "integer".
If someone wants a hexi-decimal number, then can:
* implement a scheme called "hexi-decimal"
* use XSLT to transform the decimal integer to hexi-decimal.
* For the "integer" scheme, numbering starts at 1 and increases by one
every element regardless of whether the attribute is set on the element.
* There is no uniqueness constraint.
* We add an option called "replace" that takes a boolean value. A true
value means the attribute value is replaced if the attribute already
exists on the element. The default value is "false".
I actually really like Murray's suggestion of the "scheme" option because that
lets me add a "UUID" scheme and generate unique labels across documents. I'd
be quite happy if we added a "UUID" scheme as an optional scheme in our
specification.
--
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."
Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
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