Re: [office] id or xml:id attribute?

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

On Nov 10, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> A further wrinkle: Note that text:id is defined as string not ID. I  
> have not checked on the others.

Even if the datatype is defined as an ID, though, that has no formal  
meaning in RELAX NG. A validator will not, for example, check that  
the values of the attributes are unique. My understanding is they  
will if they understand xml:id.

> I will have to re-read the spec but to change the interpretation of  
> text:id to be ID may pose backward compatibility problems.

May I suggest, then, that we put this (the meaning of the existing id  
attributes, and the possiblity to move to xml:id in the future) up  
for discussion soon?

We can't support Rob's "extrinsic metadata" use case (metadata  
statements that reference document fragments; rather than vice versa)  
without resolution here.

Bruce