Re: [glue-wg] entity references in XML

glue-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:glue-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of david.meredith@stfc.ac.uk said:

This approach may be useful for the GLUE rendering: A single entity is never repeated. Rather, shared entities are referenced.

I don't know much about the technicalities of XML, but having repeated copies of a single object sounds like a recipe for chaos to me. Having unique IDs is a fundamental part of the schema, and at the very least it must be harder to verify that if objects can be duplicated. Stephen -- Scanned by iCritical.