MY ACTION ITEM: Read Up on ID Approaches

Hi,

One of my action items for the XLIFF Inline Markup Subcommittee was to do research into ID approaches.

1.
Background

We have discovered a need for identifiers in the generic inline markup we are discussing. Example:

         <sc id='1'/>text<ec id='1'/>   or   <sc id='1'>text<ec id='2' rid='1'/>"

2.
Read Up

If I interpret
        http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/
correctly, using
        xml:id=”n1”

should be preferred over

id=”1”
since the former removes the dependency on DTD or schemas. Please note that the syntactic requirements for xml:id are the following

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name

[5]          Name      ::=       NameStartChar (NameChar)*

       Thus, something  like xml:id=”1” would be incorrect.

Cheers,
Christian