rsid* attributes

[Chris Rae]

 It seems that the uniqueness of RSIDs is to an editing session, not a document. These values are used (by us, at least) to track changes from different users and sessions in order to merge them correctly.

I've had a look through 29500 and it doesn't seem to cover this at all - indeed, the use of the term "unique" is very misleading here as other people will probably assume the same thing I did, that they're unique to a document.

Alex - assuming you think I'm heading down the right track here, I'm going to suggest that Ecma submit a DR to fix this.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Rae [mailto:Chris.Rae at microsoft.com] 
Sent: 22 October 2010 10:13
To: Alex Brown; SC 34 WG4
Subject: RE: rsid* attributes

Oh! I wonder if it's unique to the specific type of change. Will report back, and then come up with a DR.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Brown [mailto:alexb at griffinbrown.co.uk]
Sent: 22 October 2010 09:37
To: Chris Rae; SC 34 WG4
Subject: RE: rsid* attributes

Chris hi

So the bit later which mentions "[a]ll rsid* attributes throughout this document with the same value" fits with this how?

My hunch is that these values are not at all unique ... But from a validator POV I am wondering whether to test them as such ...

- Alex.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Rae [mailto:Chris.Rae at microsoft.com]
> Sent: 22 October 2010 17:10
> To: Alex Brown; SC 34 WG4
> Subject: RE: rsid* attributes
> 
> Hi Alex - I'm guessing it means unique within the document, but I'll 
> see if anyone else here knows.
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Brown [mailto:alexb at griffinbrown.co.uk]
> Sent: 22 October 2010 07:06
> To: SC 34 WG4
> Subject: rsid* attributes
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm looking at the wml rsid* attributes (17.3.1.22), and notice the 
> Standard says the identifier valuess are to be "unique".
> 
> What is the scope of that uniqueness?
> 
> - Alex.
> 
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