Re: Typo in xml-id spec; canonicalization?

/ Webb Roberts <webb.roberts@gtri.gatech.edu> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
|> / Webb Roberts <webb.roberts@gtri.gatech.edu> was heard to say:
|> | "XML Schema authors are encouraged to use xml:id attributes
|> | exclusively in to indicate element identifiers."
|
| My issue was not with the semantics of the sentence, rather that there seemed to be words missing:
|
| "XML Schema authors are encouraged to use xml:id attributes exclusively in [SOMETHING GOES HERE] to indicate element identifiers."

Indeed. We have elected to reword things slightly. The relevant
paragraph is now:

  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.

Please let us know if that remains unsatisfactory.

|> To the extent that your specifications make use of exclusive (rather
|> than inclusive) C14N, I believe that the C14N issues do not apply.
|> Hopefully it will be possible to revise the C14N spec so that this
|> problem goes away (though, of course, nothing can be done to fix
|> existing deployed software).
|
| I think it would be very helpful if there was some structured
| documentation that would help us get xml:id through c14n objections.
| Right now, there is resistance.

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.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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