Re: integration testing of xml:ID

/ Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> was heard to say:
| On Friday, June 10, 2005, 11:11:34 PM, Bjoern wrote:
|
| BH> * Norman Walsh wrote:
|>>/ Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> was heard to say:
|>>| I can't tell if the intent is that the CSS specs get revised
|>>| to refer to xml:ID or if CSS implementations are to independently
|>>| pick up xml:ID support or what. The current spec is kinda waffly,
|>>| as far as I can tell...
|
|>>We believe that xml:id can be implemented in each of these cases and
|>>have taken (at least some) steps to demonstrate this fact.
|
| BH> This does not really answer Dan's question, or what I understood the
| BH> question to be. From
|
| BH>  
| BH> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-CSS21-20040225/selector.html#id-selectors
| BH>   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xml-id-20050208/
|
| BH> could you please state whether adding text like
|
| BH>   If an implementation supports CSS 2.1 and also supports
| BH>   xml:id, then the xml:id attribute must be treated as an
| BH>   ID for the purposes of CSS selector processing.
|
| I must say that this is exactly the sort of conditional conformance
| requirement that i would like to see (and the same for DOM and XPath).

I think it would be great to see such a statement in CSS 2.1 (and DOM
and XPath 1.0; in fact, XPath 2.0 supports xml:id directly).

But I don't see how any of this can be accomplished by the xml:id
specification itself.

I took steps to demonstrate that it was possible to implement xml:id
support in CSS and XSLT 1.0 (and by extension other specifications)
*without* any changes to the "upper level" specifications.

Hopefully, the timely publication of xml:id as a Recommendation will help
those specifications adapt to support it.

If you object to closing this issue as Dan raised it, please let us
know.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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