XSchema: existing ID attributes considered harmful (was: XSchema Spec Section 2.2, Draft 1)

[Paul Prescod]

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, John Cowan wrote:

> However, consider an extension to XSchema syntax that allowed one
> to tag (with ID attributes) various XSchema elements and then to
> refer to them using empty XLink elements.
> 
> In aid of this, I am PROPOSING that we not use any ID attributes
> in XSchema 1.0; change the "id ID #REQUIRED" attributes in ElementDecl
> elements to "name NMTOKEN #REQUIRED" instead.  That will allow us
> to reserved XML IDs for structure-sharing.

I like this idea.

 Paul Prescod


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