Re: [Moderator Action] Change scope of ID-Type from Henry S. Thompson on 2001-03-07 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from March 2001)

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 07 Mar 2001 08:05:37 +0000
To: Ingo Goblirsch <ingo.goblirsch@aixigo.de>
Cc: francis@redrice.com, p.sturm@aixigo.de, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Message-ID: <f5bn1ayroku.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

Ingo Goblirsch <ingo.goblirsch@aixigo.de> writes:

> is it possible to change the scope of the ID-Type from the document to a 
> branch of elements or to one element and it´s direct child´s in 
> XML-Schema?

Not ID, which is a legacy type with fixed semantics, but Identity
Constraints are there to provide a more powerful, scoped, alternative.

ht
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