On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:36:47 -0800, Kurt Cagle <>
wrote:
| Because idref is only defined relative to its enclosing document,
| this means that it's remarkably difficult to create a reference
| to remote entities, meaning that any NIEM document effectively
| has to contain the entire serialization of all of its objects.
I'm not sure I follow this. IDREF is far from a general purpose
reference mechanism. It's for intra-document cross-referencing only.
(See the FPML specs for reasonable use.)
Too much water has flowed under too many bridges to bring up the
dreaded H-word again, so I'll let it go at that.
