Difficulties with Flat XML under source control

[Michael Stahl]

On 17/06/12 22:10, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> - The <text:list xml:id="list533178598"> changes. That xml:id does not
> seem to be used anywhere. Can I just remove it? What will I lose?

these are sadly auto-generated, which is a bug in itself; they are used
in ODF itself for continuations, i.e. there can be another list that
continues an existing list by referring to its text:id/xml:id;  then
there is another use in ODF 1.2 where RDF metadata can refer to the
element by its xml:id, but that only works if the xml:id is actually
persistent, i.e. the same value that is imported is then exported again;
making the ids persistent requires extending the Writer core, which is a
bit of work...