Re: Options for dealing with IDs

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<stage-direction>
Norm leans forward, trying to see what's at the bottom of this particular
slippery slope. Stepping gingerly forward...</stage-direction>

If we're going to start changing what IDs mean, and how they're
identified (and I have real reservations about doing so), I wonder if
we should simultaneously try to fix the most common error I see in XML
documents with respect to ID values: users trying to use unique values
that do not satisfy the "Name" production as IDs:

  <employee id="Norman Walsh"/>
  <component id="001324"/>
  etc.

I've seen several variations of the latter example where the name of
the ID attribute was not "id". I don't think the options that force
people to use the name "id" are very friendly.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Received on Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:21:56 UTC