RE: [xsl] keys and idrefs - XSLT2 request?

[DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> From: Joerg Pietschmann 

> IMHO it's unnecessary to incorporate a special handling of
> IDREFS. At first, it would only work if there is a DTD/Schema
> and the document is verified against it.

Without the DTD they are a string, not IDREFS.


> Last but not least, there is not really a big need for using
> IDREFS. You can easily design a structure which will carry
> the same information while being much more amenable to XSL
> processing 

So now we restrict the use of XML to that which our tools
can process? That doesn't sound very logical to me.

Regards DaveP

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