XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT ccil.org>]

Elliotte Harold scripsit:

> 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?

No, it isn't.  An attribute is of type ID if and only if one or more of
the following is true:

a) it is declared in the document's DTD as being of type ID, whether
   or not XML validation is being done;

b) it is declared in an XML Schema as being of type xs:ID, and XML
   Schema validation is being done;

c) the attribute is named "xml:id".

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