- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:18:00 -0800
- To: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Cc: robin.berjon@expway.fr, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Steven Pemberton wrote: > I have never understood this restriction in XML. I understand the problem of > having two elements with the same name, but not of having two names on one > element. > > Can anyone explain to me what breaks when an element has two (different) > names? Why does XML prevent you from having more than one attribute of type > ID on an element? Design error we inherited from SGML. If someone had really gotten excited about this when we were doing XML we could have discarded it, and probably should have. -Tim
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