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Re: [XOM-interest] Non NCName IDs

From: Richard Tobin <richard AT inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: veillard AT redhat.com, Richard Tobin <richard AT inf.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>, '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: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:57:08 +0000 (GMT)

> > 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

If it had been changed, it would have been the only case where the
type of an attribute depended on its value.

-- Richard

Re: [XOM-interest] Non NCName IDs , (continued)
- Re: [XOM-interest] Non NCName IDs, Elliotte Harold, 03/20/2006
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Non NCName IDs, John Cowan, 03/20/2006
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Non NCName IDs, Adam Constabaris, 03/20/2006
- Re: [XOM-interest] Non NCName IDs, Richard Tobin, 03/22/2006