- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:48:03 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>I agree. You can always use CDATA instead and kludge it in the application. > >I would argue, in fact, that XML might as well not have an ID attribute >type at all. Just CDATA. Then have an application convention that a >string in an attribute of the form ref.xxx refers to a corresponding >(case sensitive) string in an attribute of the form ref.xxx, where the xxx >must be the same in both cases. I prefer this to any of the options we have discussed. We should eliminate ID/IDREF altogether, add Lee's application convention, and generate warnings for attbitues called "ref.whatever" whose value does not occur on as the value of a "whatever" attribute elsewhere in the document. We can add ID/IDREF declarations once SGML97 comes out. XML need never have them, but the SGML import process will be able to create them automatically. >This proposal works without a DTD, and with a DTD gives documents that >parse correctly in SGML. Exactly! very nice! -- David RE delenda est. I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________ http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/services_map_main.html
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