- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:08:37 +0100
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Tim Bray wrote: > - The assertions about necessary linkage between namespaces and > versioning policy are similarly inoperative. There is no general policy > in place and no chance of getting one. I agree that it would be impossible to find a policy that everyone could use, however a few sane guidelines would go a long way. > At the end of the day I'm basically not worried. Xml:id is demonstrably > a solution to a non-problem anyhow. There is currently no basis in any > normative specification for software receiving data served as */xml to > expect ID attributes to be defined, and we've sailed along for five > years or so now without this resulting in much breakage. Not much breakage (since the problems it caused broke long before reaching production) but a lot of pain and ugly work-arounds. It definitely is a solution to a problem. -- Robin Berjon Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/
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