Re: Options for dealing with IDs

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 10:30:06 PM, Paul wrote:

PP> Tim Bray wrote:

>>
>> Hmm, the notion of "treating as an ID" is fuzzy enough that I don't want
>> to go there.  All I'm suggesting is that for resource representations
>> served as */xml or */*+xml, a fragment identifier of "xyz" points to the
>> element which has the attribute id="xyz".

PP> What about the DOM? What about XPath/XSLT? I don't see why it makes 
PP> sense to fix XPointer and leave the left broken.

Precisely.

As i said. And what about the CSS # selector, and IDREF, too?

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 Chris                            mailto:chris@w3.org

Received on Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:45:18 UTC