[rfc-i] XML/HTML format: anchor namespaces

[paul.hoffman at vpnc.org (Paul Hoffman)]

On 27 Feb 2016, at 2:49, Julian Reschke wrote:

> We need to somehow manage collisions. I can think of some:
>
> 1) Have a hard-wired list of IDs that can not be used in the XML 
> source. This will be tricky to maintain and explain, and will break 
> existing XML.
>
> 2) Rewrite author ids that collide with auto-generated ones; that may 
> lead to surprising results when people try to link to certain items; 
> it'll also be problematic if formatters for different output formats 
> (say, HTML and PDF), rewrite them inconsistently.
>
> 3) Have all system-generated IDs use a common, reserved, prefix, such 
> as "rfc." (maybe with a small number of exceptions, for things like 
> "sec-....").

Are the rules in section B.2.1 of the v3 vocabulary document not 
sufficient? FWIW, we don't really care about "breaking existing XML" for 
a few edge cases, only if we are breaking many of them. We (meaning that 
you were involved) wrote the rules in B.2.1 to minimize breakage.

--Paul Hoffman