[docbook] Re: biblio database duplicate id in sets

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

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/ Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com> was heard to say:
|> Everything works when processing a single book. However, when I process
|> a *set* of books where one or more books' bibliographies happen to have
|> a bibliomixed element with the same id (to reference the biblioentry in
|> the bibliographic database),
|> 
|> 1) the set itself will not validate because of "duplicate IDs" (using
|> xmllint) and

Bleh. I don't think that problem ever occurred to me. That's really
unfortunate.

And I can't think of any good workaround.

Perhaps you could make a single bibliography as a "book" in the set?

If not, I think I'd probably do some sort of scoped ID mangling.
But that'd be ugly too.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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