XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

I've been having trouble making up my mind about this one. At the moment 
though here's my *tentative* decision:

1. Requiring ID type attributes to be NCNames is a validity constraint.

2. XOM does not generally enforce validity constraints.

3. Therefore XOM is simply never going to check whether xml:id attribute 
values are or are not NCNames.

On the other side, I still feel that assigning a non-NCName as an ID 
value is likely a mistake and perhaps should be flagged; so if anyone 
feels strongly this is the wrong decision, speak up. There's a very good 
chance you can change my mind about this and restore the current 
stricter behavior if that's what anyone wants.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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