[osis-core] No general ID/IDREF?

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,

Working through the schema and noticed that you dropped ID and IDREF on 
all elements? Understand the need on milestones (so you don't conflict 
with the subclassing of OSISID from xs:ID) but why are we dropping 
ID/IDREF from all other elements?

I can imagine ID being useful in a number of situations, even if we 
don't do referenceType validation. Users may want to define their own 
references for elements (for any number of reasons) and ID/IDREF allows 
them to do so without extending or conflicting with the reference system 
you have in place.

Was there some reason to drop ID/IDREF? We can always make them optional 
so users don't have to use them.

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu