Dave Pawson wrote:
On 27/10/06, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
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Since ODF is a file format, it does not generate IDs. Only ODF
applications can do so. It is of course an error if an application
generates the same ID for two elements.
>
> ODF has not addressed this in the spec. The focus seems to be on the
> presented content, not the XML on disk (wrong IMHO).
That's indirectly addressed in the spec. IDs have the W3C XSD datatype
ID, and it requires uniqueness. There is no need to rephrase that in the
specification.
Since applications are generating duplicate ID values, I think this
does need addressing in the spec.
If an application does generate duplicate IDs, then this is an issue in
the application. It's not an ODF issue. ODF uses W3C ID datatypes. This
requires uniqueness.
The value of ODF perceived by many is that the information stored on
disk has a far longer life than proprietary formats. If ODF is producing
invalid XML (if you want to define duplicate ID's as invalid) then the
public
are being fooled.
Since ODF is not an application: Do you mean OOo here?
Best regards
Michael
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