RE: Input to Best Practice 18: Assign unique identifiers to text items when possible

Hi Andzej,

> I am a little confused by your response here. xml:tm is a LISA OSCAR 
> standard that enables the unique identification of all of the translatable 
> elements (including translatable attributes) of an XML document. As such 
> it meets the requirements of BP 18 exactly.

Yes, but xml:tm's IDs are in specific formats. That is fine for xml:tm, but not a need for most XML applications.


> xml:tm is also intrinsically linked to W3C ITS as it allows the mapping 
> of W3C ITS document rules directly onto a given XML vocabulary. It 
> takes into account all aspects of document rules, including within text 
> elements, subflows and translatable attributes and interprets these via 
> the xml:tm namespace onto the specific vocabulary.

The point of BP-18 is to make sure to set unique and persistent IDs in the document, nothing more. This has nothing to do with ITS.
There is no mention of ITS anywhere in this BP.

I simply think giving an example with xml:tm would be too confusing for the reader.

Cheers,
-yves