- From: Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:21:35 -0700
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, <www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org>
The Core WG has accepted your suggestion. The [references] property will have no value when duplicate IDs are present. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. > -----Original Message----- > From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk] > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 6:32 AM > To: www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org > Subject: [references] property fixup serious incompatibility > > > I note with dismay that the XInclude CR draft specifies a _different_ > algorithm for computing the [references] property of attributes > from the Infoset REC itself. > > The Infoset REC is clear that duplicate IDs are _not_ available as > referents, and so an IDREF to such an ID has no [references] property. > > The XInclude CR draft follows XPath 1.0 (but note _not_ XPath 2.0) and > _does_ give such IDREFs a [references] property, pointing to the host > of the first of the conflicting IDs. > > I think this is a _serious_ bug and that XInclude should be brought in > to line with the Infoset REC. > > ht > -- > Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of > Edinburgh > W3C Fellow 1999--2002, part-time member of W3C Team > 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 > Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk > URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ > [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged > spam]
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