Re: [O] format of the ID property in the new HTML exporter

[Jambunathan K]

Daniel Clemente <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>   in ox-html.el there's a line with an assert (the only one):
>
>          (assert (org-uuidgen-p path))
>
>
> 1.  I have some IDs like "o5y98600aze0" which don't conform to that uuidgen 
> format; they were created by early versions of org. Should only UUIDs be 
> accepted as ID?
> 2.  I think the ID should be editable by hand to what you like, as long as 
> they are unique. If you don't need to export it you don't need a CUSTOM_ID, 
> and having both ID and CUSTOM_ID is not the simplest way.
>
>   So I think that assert is too strict. My short IDs seem as good as the long 
> UUIDs.

There is ID and then there is CUSTOM_ID.  IIUC/IIRC, ID is a uuid and
CUSTOM_ID can be whatever.

Any reason why you cannot use CUSTOM_IDs here?
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