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Is it a requirement that ALL things in the language be scoped? Is it required they be declared in the grammar given that if there is a grammar, there is already a way to declare an ID? xml:id and xml:idatt only work if the standard means of declaration has been avoided. There isn't a gap in the architecture. There is a flawed practice for which the requirement posted thus far is XPointer raw and streaming. These should be the contexts for choosing the solution IF any. len -----Original Message----- From: ht@c... [mailto:ht@c...] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:21 AM To: Michael Fuller Cc: xml-dev@l...; Marcus Carr Subject: Re: Re: determining ID-ness in XML Michael Fuller <msf@m...> writes: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:40:38AM +1100, Marcus Carr wrote: > > > e.g. <?xml-typeinfo idnames="abc:id, ID, id"?> > > I agree, so despite the fact that it feels as though I'm swimming in concrete, > > I'm making one last pitch for the idea of using a PI. > [...] > > Does anyone really find the xml-stylesheet processing instruction such a > > kludge? > > > No; but then I never understood why the use of processing instructions > had become infra dig. W3C politics, I hear whispered. Anyone care to share? 1) They're not scoped, everything else about the language is. 2) They're not declared in the grammar (DTD/Schema), so their usage is not subject to any declarative/universal quality control: you're back to writing ad-hoc code in every application to check they occur where and how they're supposed to. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@c... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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