• To: "'Evan Lenz'" <elenz@x...>,"'John Cowan'" <jcowan@r...>,"'Jonathan Borden'" <jborden@m...>
• Subject: RE: IDs considered harmful or why keys might be better than IDs...
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:41:40 -0000
• Cc: "'Eric van der Vlist'" <vdv@d...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <BNEMICIEADHDDOIKLHNCAEJDFIAA.elenz@x...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> > It would be interesting to know which XML processors don't report
> > attribute type information for attributes declared in the internal
> > subset.
>
> XPath won't work properly with any XML processor that
> doesn't, so that would indeed be interesting.
>
I haven't come across a parser that fails to report this for a long time. It
was a problem in the early days, for example with older versions of xp, but
I think all SAX parsers in popular use now provide the information.

Mike Kay

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