RE: [xtm-wg] Syntax is a bitch :-(

[Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>]

At 08:28 PM 10/9/00, Michel Biezunski wrote:
>[Eliot Kimber:]
>
>  For example, with XPath, it's almsot as easy to
> > address by unique topic name as it is to address by ID value.
>
>Except that this solution will not work if there is the slightest change
>in your topic map document. Therefore this is only  advisable if the topic
>map
>is never going to change.
>
>(The ID strategy does not completely protect from the same problem, but it's
>slightly sounder.)

For a topicmap that is regularly updated, using xslt generate-id()
for id's, the same problem exists, as Ken Holman pointed out recently.

My problem centres around automatically generated topics,
but assocs manually generated, which then use the id values.
One more run through as I add another topic, and all my 
assocs are no longer valid. Thats why I would prefer CDATA values
to identify the topics, as apposed to ID attributes.

Regards DaveP





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