Re: Should we use xml:id?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

| 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.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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