[jsdl-wg] Naming elements

[Yuri Demchenko]

Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> 
> The problem with IDs or XPath terms is that neither of them supports
> references to externally-defined terms. (I'm also not convinced that IDs
> goes nicely with document composition and XML signatures/encryption.)
> Our favoured mechanism is also that which is used in XSD and WSDL, for
> what it's worth (and I've no idea why they don't use xpointer, but if we
> went that way you would *still* need substantial tooling support).
> 
I can ensure you that ID's work perfectly with all DOM versions and 
XMLSec. XPath requires special support but it is unavoidable for new 
XMLSec Java library.

Yuri