[glue-wg] entity references in XML

[stephen.burke at stfc.ac.uk]

glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of david.meredith at stfc.ac.uk said:
> This approach may be useful for the GLUE rendering: A single entity is never repeated. Rather, shared entities are referenced.

I don't know much about the technicalities of XML, but having repeated copies of a single object sounds like a recipe for chaos to me. Having unique IDs is a fundamental part of the schema, and at the very least it must be harder to verify that if objects can be duplicated.

Stephen
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