On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 07:21 PM, h.dietrich@webfair.com wrote:
> <---------------
>>>
>>> There are 2 problems:
>>> - ID/IDREF do not allow references between xml sources
>> (they are just for
>>> internal references)
>>
>> this restriction only applies if the IDREF is defined in the
>> DTD. you can
>> tell betwixt that the IDREF is any attribute you want - it
>> doesn't have to
>> match the definition in the DTD.
> ---------------->
>
> This seems to me not the right way it should be handled. ID/IDREF are part
> of the XML specification. Afaik to use them in another way would violate
> the
> specification and might lead into troubles with other XML tools/libraries.
betwixt differs from most alternative solutions in that it's not schema
based. betwixt just knows what you tell it. since you tell it about the ID/
IDREF mapping, you could make this mapping anything you like.
of course, just because you could do this doesn't mean that you should...
- robert
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