Re: [xml-dev] When converting XML to JSON, you can safely drop all id attributes

At 2015-06-15 16:19 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>Lesson Learned: when converting XML to JSON you can safely drop all 
>id attributes.

That seems a very broad statement, Roger.  In the interest of 
preserving information and not losing important relationships, I 
would think it critical not to drop any id or idref 
attributes.  Those relationships may be very important to the information.

Certainly in JSON one wouldn't have the ID attribute type semantic of 
uniqueness and the IDREF(S) attribute type semantic of referential 
integrity, but preserving the values of one's ID and IDREF attributes 
would preserve important relationships expressed within the 
information even if they were type-less.

. . . . . . . Ken


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