.NET XmlReader API flaw

.NET's XmlReader is a great XML parser, but it has one big flaw in its API: XmlReader doesn't expose attribute types. XML actually defines 8 attribute types: CDATA, ID, IDREF, IDREFS, ENTITY, ENTITIES, NMTOKEN, NMTOKENS. Yes, it's DTD, which apparently Microsoft considers to be dead,  but ID, IDREF, IDREFS types are really important ones. They provide support for cross-references and many XML languages rely on them, particularly XPath, XSLT, XQuery, XPointer, XInclude.

That means XmlReader cannot be used to develop third-party implementations of those languages unless one sticks to XPathDocument/XmlDocument, which know attribute types internally.

I wonder if XLinq will have this information, because if not - XSLT over XLinq won't be supporting id() function.

Btw, in Java SAX and Stax both happily expose attribute types... Makes me envy.

I though I filed it as a bug years ago, but I didn't. So although it's too late, here it is. I'm sure it will be another "thanks for suggestion, we'll consider it for the next release", but anyway. Vote please whoever cares.