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

Hi,

I agree: BP 9 and BP 18 should be synched. This would also address the
"lexical space" issue which Jirka mentions. BP 9 addresses this by not
mandating an ID type. It only recommends this type.

Cheers,
Christian

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From: public-i18n-its-request@w3.org [mailto:public-i18n-its-request@w3.org]
On Behalf Of Jirka Kosek
Sent: Montag, 10. September 2007 08:20
To: Felix Sasaki
Cc: public-i18n-its@w3.org
Subject: Re: Input to Best Practice 18: Assign unique identifiers to text
items when possible

Felix Sasaki wrote:

> We should align this formulation
> "Your DTD or schema should provide xml:id (or an equivalent mechanism)"
> with BP 9, e.g. like:
> "Your DTD or schema should provide xml:id (or a different attribute to
> be of type ID)"

We might even consider using more general statement like:

Your DTD or schema should provide xml:id (or different means for
assigning unique identifier to each element)

Using ID type might be limiting due its limited lexical space. Some
schemas could use more complex or compound identifiers defined by
xs:unique/xs:key.

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