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March 6, 2013
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Framemaker ID attribute

  • March 6, 2013
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Hi all,

Do any of you know whether the FramerMaker ID attribute is used anywhere besides in cross-references?

Thanks.

Margo

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xandyB
Inspiring
June 6, 2018

I use it for Conrefs but nowadays run into problems with it, if you try to use ID for the same element tag category multiple times in one document.

This is a new issue, that was not there before.

Legend
March 6, 2013

Hi Margo,

Interesting question. I can't think of anywhere else. It is typically used very heavily by certain plugins and other post-processing activities, but other than the enforcement of uniqueness, I don't believe that native FrameMaker has any concern for it. The exception might be the plugin-driven DITA tools, if you want to consider them a native feature, which maybe we should. Things like conrefs and ditamaps rely on IDs.

As much as I work with this stuff, I'll be chagrined if someone points out something I forgot.

Russ