Re: [topicmaps-comment] referring to a topic from outside a TM (was:multilingual thesaurus - language, scope ,and topic naming constraint)

[Geir Ove =?UNKNOWN?Q?Gr=F8nmo?= <grove@ontopia.net>]

* Thomas Bandholtz
| > From: Thomas B. Passin
| [...]
| > ....  Whether a
| > topic is referred to by its ID directly (e.g., by a program  instantiating
| > that map in memory), or by xlink:href is secondary, since the href is
| > supposed to refer to the topic by its ID as in
| > 
| > xlink:href='#thetopic'
| > 
| > This mean the ID is treated as a URI (when you normalize it 
| > to include the base URI of the owning document).  
| 
| Try this with http://psi.ontopia.net/ontopia/ontopia.xtm#topicmap in IE 6.0.
| You will see the top (!) of Steve Pepper's XTM-document, while the topic
| with id="topicmap" resides two scrolls below. Is this a bug or a feature? 

It is neither a feature nor a bug. ;) 

You see this behaviour because the id attribute is not _declared_ as an
ID attribute. The document does not reference a document type
definition, so the browser cannot know which attributes are ID
attributes. The fact that it is called 'id' does not make it an ID
attribute.

Geir O.