DOCBOOK: Re: Conventions for IDs

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

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/ BigSmoke <bigsmoke at home dot nl> was heard to say:
| Is there some sort of convention as how to name the IDs in a DocBook document,
| or an XML document in general. I've used IDs like 'section-Some_title', but
| when I look around, I see more IDs like 'section.some.title'? Is there some
| kind of underlying philosophy behind the naming in, for example, the TDG or 
| the DocBook XSL stylesheets?

Nope. They have to be unique, that's all. I tend, personally, to use
strings that I'm likely to remember while I'm working on a document so
that I don't have to go lookup the ID when I want to xref to it.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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