Support for xml:id

• Key: XERCESJ-1113
• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: George Cristian Bina
• Component/s: XInclude 1.0
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.1

Description

Hi,

The XInclude ID support should handle xml:id. This is useful for instance with DocBook or TEI that use Relax NG schemas for validation and also need XInclude support.
Here it is a patch that adds support for handling xml:id attributes as attributes of ID type.

Index: C:/george/workspace/xerces/src/org/apache/xerces/xpointer/ShortHandPointer.java
===================================================================
--- C:/george/workspace/xerces/src/org/apache/xerces/xpointer/ShortHandPointer.java (revision 344362)
+++ C:/george/workspace/xerces/src/org/apache/xerces/xpointer/ShortHandPointer.java (working copy)
@@ -162,6 +162,17 @@
             }
         }
         
+ if (normalizedValue == null && attributes != null) {
+ // Try to see if we can get an xml:id
+ for (int i = 0; i < attributes.getLength(); i++) {
+ if ("xml".equals(attributes.getPrefix(i)) &&
+ "id".equals(attributes.getLocalName(i))) {
+ normalizedValue = attributes.getValue(i);
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
         if (normalizedValue != null
                 && normalizedValue.equals(fShortHandPointer)) {
             return true;

Best Regards,
George