RE: [entity-resolution] Re: Should we use xml:id?

["Paul Grosso" <pgrosso@arbortext.com>]

If there's nothing in the catalog that refers to it,
then it seems much less likely that a given catalog
implementation would become broken by such a change.

So in that case, I'd be more inclined toward such
a change (though I could still go either way).

paul 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 28 January, 2005 10:02
> To: entity-resolution@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [entity-resolution] Re: Should we use xml:id?
> 
> | Is there anything in the catalog dtd/schema 
> | that is an idref?  That is, can anything
> | within a catalog reference an id, or did
> | we just throw in an id attribute for fun?
> 
> Well, I'm not sure it was just for fun, but there's nothing 
> in XML Catalogs
> that uses IDREF. The idea, I think, was that someone might 
> use a fragment
> identifier to point into a catalog, to identify a group perhaps.
>