Re: Questions on Container Proposal

Dave Beckett wrote:
> 
> >>>Aaron Swartz said:

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> Since RDF has no processing model, it isn't clear where the
> responsibility lies to check either of the above examples.  In the
> latter case XML is happy since the same ID is not used in one XML
> file, but generates the same RDF statement due to the RDF URI rules.

small nit. the XML ID type is specifically not used in the BNF since
the ID can appear multiple times in an RDF/XML document. So even if
the _<n> approach had not been used (thus allowing use of DTD), the
DTD wouldn't have been able to do ID validation.  
 
Gabe