> Tim Larson wrote:
>
> > As part of my effort to keep whiteboard/forms mergeable,
> >
> >I am fixing a bunch of Id's and ran across a minor issue.
> >How do we want to mark the version in xml files? There
> >is quite a variety+possibilities:
> > CVS $Id$
> > SVN $Id$
> > <!--+
> > | $Id$
> > +-->
> > Version $Id$
> > version $Id$
> > @version $Id$
> > etc...
> >Could we pick a style, and then I will make the files I
> >happen to touch match it?
> >
> >--Tim Larson
> >
> >
> I only see one choice that is within a comment. How do the
> others keep
> from breaking the document?
What about a processing instruction?
<?version $Id$?>
This has the advantage over a comment that it can be retrieved unambiguously
with an XPath query:
"processing-instruction('version')"
Cheers
Con