XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <wolfgang.hoschek AT mac.com>]

Thanks. Makes sense to me.
Wolfgang.

On Mar 28, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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