RE: [xml-dev] IDs considered harmful or why keys might be better thanIDs...

From
Michael Kay <>
To
"'K. Ari Krupnikov'" <>,
Date
2001-11-13T12:54:00
ID
<000701c16c42$45841550$ddc469d5@pcukmka>
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] IDs considered harmful or why keys might be better thanIDs...
> Michael Kay wrote:
> > > So why do we need _another_ mechanism to declare IDs?
> > >
> > Well, one reason is that an XML document produced as the output of an
XSLT
> > transformation will never have an internal subset.
>
> Maybe that should be fixed in XSLT, not in XML?
>
It would be easier to fix it in XSLT if it was first fixed in the InfoSet...

Mike Kay