Re: [office] The desirability of xml:id stability

From
Andreas J Guelzow <>
Date
2013-02-04T21:36:02+00:00
ID
1360013761.12838.2.camel@bourbaki
Thread
Re: [office] The desirability of xml:id stability
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 14:30 -0700, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> 
> 3) What I am missing is some evidence, other than your saying it, that 
> preservation of xml:ids is any harder than preserving any other 
> attribute value.
> 
> I understand implementations don't do the preservation now, but at one 
> time implementations didn't use XML either. Non-use doesn't mean that a 
> proposal is too difficult or unworkable.
> 
> Being able to reliably point into documents would be the next step 
> towards not simply getting document level pointers from a search engine.
> 

Patrick, what would be an example of an arbitrary string attribute value
that is currently being preserved by at least some ODF
consumer/producers?

Andreas 

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Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD FTICA
Professor of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta