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There was also my proposal to just leverage XLink labels for simple fragment identifiers:
 
This would mean extending the use of labels beyond simply labeling resources and locators within an extended link, but this seems to me to be a very logical extension. I don't see why we need IDs for this versus a simple label explicitly for the purpose of linking. Are people looking for guarantees of uniqueness, here, for the fragment identifier?
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@s...]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:29 PM
To: Mike Champion; xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re: XPointer crisis
Leigh Dodds sent me some very useful pointers that summarize earlier discussion on this topic. The following XML Deviant article includes proposals by James Clark, and Tim Bray:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/07/id.html

The following contains various proposals for xml:id attribute, etc. It is slightly outdated, but contains messages for/against each option:

http://weblogs.userland.com/eclectic/xml-identifiers.html

Hope this helps anyone else who, like me, missed the initial debate.

Jonathan

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