RDF, ID's, XPtrs, and object orientation

[John Cowan]

Jeffrey E. Sussna wrote:

> My approach has been not to use ID attributes, but I don't have a
> choice if I'm using RDF. I suppose it will work as long as I don't
> validate, but I really want to validate.

Actually, the values of ID and bagID attributes have to be unique
within the document, but nothing says that either has to be an
XML "ID attribute".  (That was so in earlier drafts, but not now.)

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
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