XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Daniel Veillard <veillard AT redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:40:21PM +0000, Richard Tobin wrote:
> 
> > Even so the test suite suggests the ID should be registered.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "registered".  If you mean recognised as
> an ID and normalised as one, then yes.  This is (by design) the same
> as for an ID attribute declared in a DTD: validity does not affect
> normalisation or type assignment.

  And that's how we end up with software expecting id('1234') or 
id('foo bar') to work in XPath. I still think it's a disaster to
let this go though while we had the opportunity to block it and
force the cleanup for xml:id

Daniel

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