id

Document Internal Identifier

A unique in-the-document identifier for an element. The identifier can be used in the target attribute of another element to point to the current element. See NISO STS @id element for more information.

Used on these Elements:

<tbx:crossReference>, <tbx:definition>, <tbx:entailedTerm>, <tbx:example>, <tbx:externalCrossReference>, <tbx:geographicalUsage>, <tbx:grammaticalGender>, <tbx:grammaticalNumber>, <tbx:langSet>, <tbx:normativeAuthorization>, <tbx:note>, <tbx:partOfSpeech>, <tbx:pronunciation>, <tbx:see>, <tbx:source>, <tbx:subjectField>, <tbx:term>, <tbx:termEntry>, <tbx:termType>, <tbx:tig>, <tbx:usageNote>, <tbx:xGraphic>, <tbx:xMathML>, <tbx:xSource>
ValueMeaning
An identifier (ID)A unique identifier for the element. An XML parser can verify that an IDREF-style attribute pointing to one of these is pointing to a valid ID.
RestrictionThis is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Example

Showing unique in-the-document identifiers for both <tbx:termEntry> and <tbx:term>:
<tbx:termEntry id="ISO10241-1.a22.32">
  <tbx:langSet xml:lang="en">
    <tbx:definition>reference level for soundings in navigation charts</tbx:definition>
    <tbx:tig>
      <tbx:term id="a22.32-1">chart datum</tbx:term>
      <tbx:partOfSpeech value="noun"/>
      <tbx:normativeAuthorization value="preferredTerm"/>
      <tbx:termType value="fullForm"/>
    </tbx:tig>
    <tbx:tig>
      <tbx:term id="a22.32-2">CD</tbx:term>
      <tbx:partOfSpeech value="noun"/>
      <tbx:normativeAuthorization value="admittedTerm"/>
      <tbx:termType value="acronym"/>
    </tbx:tig>
  </tbx:langSet>
</tbx:termEntry>

TBX Tag Set Components

Version of October 2019

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