[Nml-wg] NML XML Schema

[Jason Zurawski]

Hi John;

We choose to define our own id and idRef elements because the semantics 
of the native XML definitions only allowed the scope to be within a 
single XML document.  Since many of the topology elements are long 
lived, we need semantics that could allow references between documents.

Hope this helps;

-jason

On 2/23/11 2:45 AM, John MacAuley wrote:
> Peoples,
>
> I started to capture the different example XML instance documents
> into a reference XML schema but have a number of questions.  The
> first question is the use of id and idRef attributes that appear in
> the examples.  I had assumed these were standard XML attributes,
> however, the URN values in the example XML are not compatible with
> the XML ID and IDREF attribute types (":" are not allowed in
> NCNames).  Can I use the XML base anyURI type for this?
>
> Thank you, John.