Re: [xml-dev] "no one uses xml:id any more"

On 2/4/2014 1:00 PM, Michael Kay wrote:
> On 4 Feb 2014, at 17:21, Michael Sokolov <> wrote:
>
>> However, I think it's likely that no one who isn't already using xml:id today is likely to start using it tomorrow.
>>
> Why? I find it very useful, and have applications where I've stopped using DTD-defined ID attributes and use xml:id instead. It means that id() in a stylesheet works whether or not you do DTD validation, which is much more robust.
>
OK, perhaps that was a flip remark - it sounded good to me when I first 
wrote it!  I was thinking more about discoverability than about 
usefulness, although now that I think of it is only a little less likely 
that someone would discover xml:id today than it was a few years ago.

I guess I also still bear scars from my previous encounter with it (see 
http://markmail.org/thread/vabspbbgsylrgr6e) when I was trying to get it 
to work with xpointer and stumbled over less-than-ideal support from the 
parser (I ended up needing to define xml:id in a DTD).

-Mike