• To: Dmitry Lizorkin <lizorkin@i...>
• Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:11:45 -0500
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Dmitry Lizorkin wrote:

> SXML is formally specified as the representation of of XML Information Set
> as Scheme nested lists.

How does SXML handle attribute types? in particular ID and IDREFS?

I was recently surprised to discover that DOM, at least Level 2, doesn't 
really handle this at all well; and it turns out to be necessary to 
implement XInclude, XPath, and various other technologies that might 
wish to sit on top of DOM. :-(

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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