RE: XSchema: existing ID attributes considered harmful (was: XSchema
Simon St.Laurent (SimonStL@classic.msn.com)
Wed, 17 Jun 98 12:56:48 UT
The chorus has spoken:
>> > 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.
>
>Ditto. It looks like the XSchema app is going to have to do half the work
>anyway, so there's no point in limiting ourselves with IDs.
I'll make the change. I think this opens up XSchema dramatically, making
possible and eventually compatible the currently-proposed nested model, Paul's
rule based model, and several of the ideas I've seen for re-creating parameter
entities.
The key in my mind remains making the declarations referenceable; the rest we
can handle in successive specifications as needed. I think we have a great
start here.
Simon St.Laurent
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