MY ACTION ITEM: Read Up on ID Approaches

["Lieske, Christian" <christian.lieske@sap.com>]

Hi,

 

One of my action items for the XLIFF Inline Markup Subcommittee was to do research into ID approaches.

 

1.       Background

 

We have discovered a need for identifiers in the generic inline markup we are discussing. Example:

 

         <sc id='1'/>text<ec id='1'/>   or   <sc id='1'>text<ec id='2' rid='1'/>"

 

2.       Read Up

 

If I interpret

        http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/

correctly, using

        xml:id=”n1”

 

should be preferred over

 

id=”1”

since the former removes the dependency on DTD or schemas. Please note that the syntactic requirements for xml:id are the following

 

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name

 

[5]          Name      ::=       NameStartChar (NameChar)*

 

       Thus, something  like xml:id=”1” would be incorrect.

 

Cheers,

Christian