Multi-valued attributes

[James Tauber]

John Cowan wrote:
> Can SGML tribal elders report on any actual uses of IDREFS and ENTITIES?


Marcus Carr:
>Certainly - come closer to the fire, my son...
>
>Actually, I can't think of a particularly good application for IDREFS
[...]

How about when you want to reference more than one ID from the one element?
:-)

I came close to using IDREFS for xmlsoftware.com and the only reason I
didn't was the lack of support in XSL.

xmlsoftware.com is a single XML document with two main sections, a list of
categories with descriptions and a list of software. Each category has an
ID. IDREFS could be used for associating products with one *or more*
categories:

    <Product Categories="editor browser">...</Product>

James
(not an SGML tribal elder)





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