[api-dev] Re: API for unique IDs?

2009-08-20 Thread Michael Stahl
Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > Hi Michael, > >> in short, there is a xml:id registry and some abstract base classes in >> sfx2, and a interface com.sun.star.rdf.XMetadatatable for entities that >> may have xml:id. > > Unfortunately, this existing API is indeed coupled with me

Re: [api-dev] Re: API for unique IDs?

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Michael, > in short, there is a xml:id registry and some abstract base classes in > sfx2, and a interface com.sun.star.rdf.XMetadatatable for entities that > may have xml:id. Unfortunately, this existing API is indeed coupled with meta data. I don't need this for meta data: I just discovered t

[api-dev] Re: API for unique IDs?

2009-08-20 Thread Michael Stahl
Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > Hi, > > do we have an API for document-wide (or "context-wide") unique string > identifiers? > > That is, I think there are ongoing implementations (or plans, at least) > to use xml:id in ODF documents more widely. This implies that at > runtime