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Aren't these the kinds of inconsistencies that need to be "normalized" (for lack of a better word) so that you could interoperate more easily with disparate systems irregardless of which technique they chose? In a perfect world, let's say, you can run a script and convert IDREF attributes to their XPointer equivalents, yes? Otherwise I sense danger! Danger will robinson! lisa Michael Kay wrote: > > MK>> ... the real difficulty with [IDREFs] is ... the fact > that they are > MK>> incompatible with XPointer. > > > Chris Maden>That's not true. > > I can use either an IDREF or an XPointer (within an XLink, > or otherwise) to define a reference by ID to another element > in the same XML document, but there are differences: > > * The syntax is different ["idval" versus "ID(idval)" or > "#idval"] > * I can have several IDREF attributes in an element, but > only one XLink attribute > * A dangling IDREF is an error; a dangling XPointer is not > > That is what I mean by saying the two facilities are > incompatible. Or to put it another way, once I have made a > design choice to use IDREF or to use XPointer for the links > in my documents, I am stuck with my choice. > > This is one of several situations in the XML family of > standards where there is more than one way of doing the same > thing, and no obvious way to choose between them. As the > frequency of questions about the element-vs-attribute choice > shows, this confuses users no end; it also complicates > software tools. > > MK > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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