Re: Impact of the usage of unique identifier as URN into XML document s ?

Hess Yvan <yvan.hess@imtf.ch> writes:

> <xs:key name="DocIdentifier">
>   <xs:selector xpath="."/> 
>   <xs:field xpath="@id"/>
> </xs:key>

This does not have the desired effect, it will always be true, as
there is only ever one id attribute on a 'document' element.  To have
this do useful work, you need to change it to

<xs:key name="DocIdentifier">
   <xs:selector xpath=".//my:document"/> 
   <xs:field xpath="@id"/>
</xs:key>

and move it to within an element declaration for an element which
scopes all your 'document' nodes.

> It works fine, but I don't know the future impacts/limitation of such
> choice, specially concerning the usage of URN as unique identifier in
> conjunction with others XML technologies. Does anybody have any comments,
> suggestions or best practices about this subject? Can you see future
> limitation?

I don't foresee any future problems with this -- the actual _type_ of
the attribute you call 'id' is completely within your control.

ht
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