• From: Michael Ludwig <milu71@g...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:43:24 +0200

Michael Glavassevich schrieb am 16.09.2009 um 15:11:08 (-0400):
> 
> If you read through the specification you'll notice that the
> assignment of IDs is conceptually done by a component separate from
> the parser called an xml:id processor [1].

It's an add-on to the parser. Like XML Namespaces, XML Base, XInclude.

> Xerces has never provided an implementation of such a processor, so
> the answer to your question is no it won't work unless you've declared
> xml:id in a DTD. This isn't a bug. It's just a spec we've never
> implemented and have never claimed to support.

Oh - the King of XML Parsers doesn't do xml:id. To whom it is of
interest, it works out of the box with LibXML2. It's pretty practical.

-- 
Michael Ludwig

• References:
  • Re: is an xml:id attribute a "DTD-determined ID"?
    • From: Mike Sokolov <sokolov@i...>
  • Re: is an xml:id attribute a "DTD-determined ID"?
    • From: Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas@c...>