Re: [xml] make XPointer( id(XX) ) and C14n work without DTD

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 06:29:23PM +0800, Andrew Fan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a xml file like,
> ---------
> <test>
> <content Id="target">
>    Hello, World!
> </content>
> ...............
> <Reference URI="#target">
> </Reference>
> </signtest>
> -------------
>
> And I parsed it as DOM tree and want to use XPointer( id( "target" ) ) 
> to get the content. Because of the absence of DTD, I have to hack the 
> DOM with "xmlAddID", which make the XPointer work.  And then, I want to 
> make a C14n transform over the DOM, I can not get the correct result. 
> What alse must I do in order to get the correct C14n?

  XPointer id() is actually XPath id() and only works if you can assert
IDness of an attribute, and that requires a DTD per the spec. Trying to
make what you suggest would simply make the library not conformant to the
specifications. Sorry that's not possible. Use a different XPointer
expression not based on id().

Daniel

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