>>>>> "David" == David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >> But they ARE required to read the internal subset, so people
    >> can always declare attributes as ID attributes there.

    David> but if I have an existing datatype with an existing dtd
    David> with a few hundred elements all which take an ID, I don't
    David> want to have to repeat hundreds of attribute ID
    David> declarations in the internal subset of every instance. Do
    David> I?

you could use a pre-processing XSLT step to include them in the XML
input - tee-hee.
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