Re: [xsl] XInclude as an XSLT transformation?

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

W. Eliot Kimber wrote:

> The issue is that in the transcluded result the IDs must be unique (this 
> is a basic requirement of XML). 

This is not a basic requirement of XML. IDs in XML documents may in fact 
be non-unique, and even non-name tokens (as recently came up in a 
different context). A document containing such non-unique IDs would be 
invalid but well-formed, and might still be usefully processed.

> It's not clear, at least to my reading, 
> whether or not the XInclude allows or requires ID values to be rewritten 
> such that all IDs in the result are unique even if two input elements 
> (from two different source documents) have the same ID value. 

The XInclude spec is clear. This is *not* allowed. ID values may not be 
rewritten by a conforming XInclude processor, even if they conflict.

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