RE: [xtm-wg] Syntax is a bitch :-(

["Dale Hunscher" <dale@supportability.com>]

ID attribute values are kind of like identity or OID columns in a database
table--unique IDs that have no other intrinsic meaning. Maybe you should
just generate them as integers and not dink around with making them
readable. Readability is what topic names are for.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 1:01 PM
> To: xtm-wg@egroups.com
> Subject: [xtm-wg] Syntax is a bitch :-(
>
>
> I'm auto-creating topics from an XML source.
>
> Because the id attribute of a topic is restricted
> * Unique
> * Cannot contain ={} [] " <> entities etc,
> I'm finding it a real bitch.
>
> An infoset element content is the source for the id,
> hence I'm spending hours stripping out 'specials'
> to facilitate using them as ID attribute values.
>
> Be nice if these restrictions were not a implicit in XTM.
> Purely pragmatic reasoning.
>
> Regards DaveP
>
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