RE: [scxml] sixth WD of SCXML is published

Greg,
 On your specific point below, the global uniqueness of IDs regardless
of type is part of XMLSchema.  I don't know what that group's motivation
was, though I imagine it makes document validation simpler.  In any
case, given that that's the way XMLSchema works, it's easiest for us to
adopt their definition.

- Jim

"Is there any 
context in which uniqueness of IDs over types of objects that are 
effectively disjoint (such as states vs. data model fields) is 
important, or is this mainly just for general readability and ambiguity 
prevention?" (If you had something like "typeof('abc')=='state'" and 
"typeof('def')=='datafield'", for example, then this would be a clear 
situation where two different types of object should not be able to have

the same ID).

Or is it just that it's simpler for a parser to validate a document 
using ID/IDREF than one with a bunch of different schema keys?



					
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