- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:39:47 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
At 9:23 PM +0100 1/10/03, Chris Lilley wrote: >PG> XML could pick up the #ALL capability defined five years ago in the >PG> SGML TC2 [1] that allows a declaration of the form: > >PG> <!ATTLIST #ALL id ID #IMPLIED> > >PG> in the internal subset to add an 'id' attribute of type ID to >all elements. > >Great suggestion. That would make the 'always declare IDs in the >internal subset' option tractable, for common cases. Currently all XML >processors are require to read the internal subset, yes? Yes, and currently every single one of them would report a well-formedness error on encountering this. I can't see the need here as being worthy of violating XML 1.0 notions of well-formedness. This is a much more breaking change than any of the other proposals, al of which work within current XML syntax and at worse slightly change the definition of validity. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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