• To: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Subject: Re: IDs considered harmful or why keys might be better than IDs...
• From: Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:20:49 +1100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• Organization: Allette Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd
• References: <3BEF9991.9080102@d...> <E163VdZ-00015K-00@s...> <01f801c16c16$8484a390$6400a8c0@JMG> <E163heH-0005Rf-00@s...>

Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:

> Again, beyond validation I've NEVER found the ID/IDREF information useful.

This from the guy who built the wonderful CONREF support into DynaText...:-)
That was a _very_ sweet use of ID information.


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