XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT ccil.org>]

Tatu Saloranta scripsit:

> This is my understanding as well (with addition of
> RelaxNG schema info).

RELAX NG doesn't alter the infoset, so declaring something to
be of type xsd:ID just means that it has to meet the constraints
(an XML name unique among all other IDs).  It doesn't make it
an ID as such.

> In case where one uses nice conversion tools to get
> from HTML to XML, like, say, TagSoup, 

:-)

> > If you're using XPath on a DTDless document then
> > elements declared as 
> > xs:ID in a W3C schema do not have type ID, and
> > arguably xml:id elements 
> > don't either (unless declared that way in a DTD).
> 
> If the parser supports Xml:id specification, they
> should, though. This seems to be the main purpose
> of Xml:id specification.

Just so.  xml:id interpretation can be done directly in
the parser or in an intermediate layer between the parser
and XOM.

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