Duplicate IDs when Saving as XML

[Karen West]

As I have previously mentioned, I produce documentation using FrameMaker
70p579 and we are now attempting to get all of our documentation online in a
help system, using a tool written in-house with our own software (a 4GL
called Cyberscreen), while maintaining the existing documentation for PDF
and print output. Initially my part in this was just to save the individual
chapters of each book as xml, producing a .xml and .css for each chapter,
plus make sure all the images were saved as gifs. As predicted by people on
this list, we keep hitting problems with the XML; last month the problem was
related to formatting that was applied using the toolbar and not character
and paragraph tags, which I'm currently resolving.

The latest problem is that there are duplicate IDs in the XML. A Google has
hinted that this is as a result of copying and pasting within chapters. 

Here's an example of the problem from the guy who's developing the XML
parsing tool:

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This is a link to a location labelled "Installation", i.e. the XML says

<Numbered>
<A ID="pgfId-4937884"></A>
Install the client and server software - see 
<A href="install.xml#id(Installation)" xml:link="simple" show="replace"
actuate="user" CLASS="XRef">
<Hypertext>
"</Hypertext>
<Emphasis>Software Installation</Emphasis>
<NoEmphasis>
", page 78</NoEmphasis>
</A>. </Numbered>

Unfortunately there are SEVEN places in this document where the XML contains

<A ID="Installation"></A>

and as "page 78" means nothing to my scripts they can't tell which of them
is intended.

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Does anyone know a way of identifying these duplicate ids and more
importantly how to avoid creating them in the first place.

TIA

Karen West
Technical Writer
Cyberscience Corp UK
http://www.cyberscience.com