Re: Unique ids in MusicXML 3.1 and beyond

> - The chairs are in agreement that, as per the XML ID spec
> https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/, the only "interoperable" aspect of xml:id is
> its uniqueness within a document. We're not allowed to impose special
> syntactic constraints, or assign domain-specific semantics to the actual
> content of the ID, so we consider it closed for MusicXML 3.1. An xml:id
> must be an opaque label, and no more.

I concur enthusiastically.  I hope this conclusion will apply as well to
whatever XML-based design may result from the MNX activity.

						L Peter Deutsch
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