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  • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: veillard AT redhat.com
  • Cc: 'xom-interest' <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>, 'Wolfgang Hoschek' <whoschek AT lbl.gov>, public-xml-id AT w3.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Non NCName IDs
  • Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:19:04 -0500

Daniel Veillard wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:59:49PM -0000, Michael Kay wrote:
So: it's clear as mud. The processor must "assure that" (assure whom?) the
value is an NCName, and it mustn't fail if it isn't.

There is no fatal error in xml:id, a fatal error would mean stopping any processing of the XML resource. Failure can only result in reporting
the error and not registering the ID.


Even so the test suite suggests the ID should be registered. That still feels like a mistake.


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