[closed] Re: Typo in xml-id spec; canonicalization?

/ Webb Roberts <webb.roberts@gtri.gatech.edu> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
|>   XML Schema authors are encouraged to use xml:id attributes when
|>   providing identifiers for elements declared in their schemas. Note
|>   that this can most easily be accomplished by importing the schema
|>   for the XML namespace and using the attribute declaration it
|>   contains.
|
| That looks fine. The one thing that I do want to avoid is the
| situation we have with the XLink schemas. On that side, there is a
| spec for XLink contents, but no normative schemas, and
| popularly-used schemas all have issues and problems, such as
| creating types and attribute groups that do not appear in the
| specification. A concrete URL of a specific XSD schema would be very
| useful, as opposed to referencing "the schema for the XML
| namespace".

As Paul notes, there is a link in the spec, I simply failed to make it
clear in the email.

|> The Core WG plans to address the C14N issues, but we don't feel
|> that such plans need to be in the xml:id specification.
|
| Agreed.  But sooner is definitely better, since we have lead times for vetting upcoming releases.

Indeed.

Thanks for your comments.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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