XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Tatu Saloranta wrote:

> Not that I have immediate need for this myself, but I
> am curious as to what would be the complex part with
> this: is it just that XOM doesn't currently build the
> hash from id (DTD/schema/RNG defined type ID for an
> attribute, or Xml:id implied type), and thus this
> might result in a linear search?
> Detecting id attributes should be easy enough,
> provided that the low-level parser provides type info.

That's the rub. It doesn't. There are quite a few different ways to 
define IDs, some used in the same documents. For instance is an id 
attribute in an HTML document without a DTD an ID or not?

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