Re: [xml-dev] ID/IDREF is evil

On 5 Feb 2014, at 21:55, Norman Walsh <> wrote:

> Michael Kay <> writes:
>> I can think of plenty of reasons not to use ID/IDREF without that one.
>> #1 being that you need one of those ghastly DTDs.
> 
> Not if you name your ID attributes 'xml:id'.
> 

Doesn't help on the IDREF side...

Michael Kay
Saxonica