x id reference

Question

I have the following element in a translation unit <x id="76"/>.

In the tag-defs list, there are two entries for this id:

<tag id="76">
<ph name="{76}" word-end="false">&lt;uicontrol varref="PP_Desktop" id="GUID-B0F3D486-0E6F-4B50-937D-49912563D292"&gt;Desktop&lt;/uicontrol&gt;</ph>
</tag>

and

<tag id="76">
<st> 
&lt;/li&gt; 
&lt;/ul&gt; 
&lt;/prereq&gt; 
&lt;context id="CONTEXT_1C753EE8EA17497CA9F46DB00A2B2D51"&gt; 
&lt;p id="GUID-C06807E1-E68F-429E-8D47-EE9652AC621E"&gt; 
&lt;note type="tip" id="GUID-42A35A63-5538-4107-B213-621AA50A7D44"&gt;</st>
</tag>

How can I know to which the id references? When there are two, always the ph element?

Thanks

Thomas

Romulus Crisan (former member) · Accepted Answer

Although the tag has the same id value those are different tags. The first one is an inline placeholder tag that can represent textual content or invisible location references. The second tag represent a structure tag that represent the document structure. Since you are looking after inline content from your segment means you need to look after the placeholder tag. A placeholder tag is starting with ph and is inside a tag element.

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