changed xs:ID to xs:string in all schemas

[Scott Chapal]

Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> writes:

> As we discussed earlier today, the use of xs:ID as the type for our id
> elements has prevented us from using completely numeric values in the
> id elements.  Thus, we decide to change from xs:ID to xs:string in all
> of these cases.  I have now implemented this, and tested validation
> against the instance documents we were using yesterday.  Validation
> now allows values like "1234".  This takes care fo the sixth action
> item from our conference call today.

Matt,

Now that I think about this more, are you sure this is what you want?
Don't you need the following here?  string doesn't do that.

_________________________________________________________________
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-xml-2e-20000814#NT-TokenizedType

Validity constraint: ID

Values of type ID must match the Name production. A name must not
appear more than once in an XML document as a value of this type;
i.e., ID values must uniquely identify the elements which bear them.
_________________________________________________________________

Forfeiting the 'completely numeric values' doesn't seem a high price
to pay, and the adoption of some convention for the name of the id
value string, say

<creator  id="creator.1" xmlns=""> 

or

 packageId="sample.dataset.1"

or, better yet

 packageId="CES.package.1024494770867"

altered from Peter's example file.  This is a recognizable string that
has meaning beyond 1024494770867.

Verbosity is a feature, not a bug. :)

Just thought I'd bring it up now, because I'm seeing the utility of
naming conventions while I'm authoring a DocBook document using ID's.

Anyone else think this is worthwhile?

BTW, I can't get to www.ecoinformatics.org or knb.ecoinformatics.org
to review the changes in cvs - connection refused.

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