• From: Michael Ludwig <mlu@a...>
• To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:19:22 +0200

Michael Kay schrieb:
> I'm not sure it's fair to consign xml:id to the same dustbin as
> XPointer. Give it time.

I agree. I find xml:id a very useful feature, for example to mark some
<div> in an XHTML page that may be re-purposed for display in an
<iframe> or as snippet in another non-XML templating system.

All that's needed is a DOM and getElementById().

In addition, id() in XPath is very convenient.

Last not least the shortcut document('bla.xml#some-id-123') in XSLT.

-- 
Michael Ludwig

• References:
  • Re: Wikipedia on XML
    • From: Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@S...>
  • RE: Wikipedia on XML
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>