• To: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Subject: Re: So maybe ID isn't a problem after all.
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:06:53 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:


> XML itself doesn't do anything with graphs, even with ID/IDREF pairs, beyond 
> simple validation of constraints. As such I have to disagree with your 
> assertion that "Without ID's, XML can only serialize trees" and put it down 
> to FUD.


*in an application-independent way*.  Of course you can define your own

mechanism, or use XLink.

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