This has been a long standing issue so I'm in favour of the fix.  Other 
apps are free to ignore the extra attribute, the down side is that the 
context docs probably won't validate against the schema, but most of 
them probably won't validate anyway because of element ordering.

Mike

Steven M. Ottens wrote:
> Roald de Wit wrote:
>   
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 15:25 +0100, Andreas Hocevar wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Ok, to sum up: after testing you get a +1 from me for adding your
>>> changes in the 1_5 branch, but I want the opinion of others on how to
>>> handle Web Map Context (Context.js), where @id is not part of the
>>> specification.
>>>     
>>>       
>> No one has responded yet. Is that to be interpreted as an approval? ;-)
>>
>> I can easily take the id generating bit out of Context.js, but you'd
>> rather see any reference to layerId removed in that one, i guess?
>>   
>>     
> I'm not that big on standards and I know that using layernames does lead 
> to errors every now and then. So I'm in favor of using IDs in WMC as 
> well. I don't think an extra attribute breaks compatibility with other 
> apps, but I'm no expert on this.
>
> Regards,
> Steven
>
>
>
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