On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 14:10, Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
> Somewhat OT, I think that the current use of the id attribute in the 
> Woody widget definition (WD) file is unfortunate. Id attributes are 
> supposed to be unique in an XML document according to the standard,

I don't think so. An attribute called "id" has no special meaning in
XML.

>  and 
> as id in WD files rather describe a relative position in a widget 
> hierarchy, there are no reason for them to be unique. IMO it would be 
> better to use the attribute name "ref" for refering to relative 
> positions as in XForms. See also 
> http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25300.
> 
> What about replaceing "id" with "ref" in the WD files when we rename 
> Woody to CForms?

I'm not really convinced. The "id" attribute defines the id for the
widget, and does not reference it, as "ref" seems to suggest.

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