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Hi Alex...

From what you've shown of your data model, it looks an awful lot like DITA .. have you considered using that? If you did, you'd have support for that from tools that already exist rather than trying to build your own.

Also .. typically (from what I've seen) the ID attribute is on the title's "topic" element rather than on the title itself. When making a cross-ref to the "title" you actually make the cross-ref to the topic and the title is used as the link text.

But, back to your question .. I'm not aware of any default FM way to automatically assign an ID value to elements. I use the FDK for this purpose, but this could also be done with FrameScript or XSLT.

If you're trying to add a common block of elements to a number of files, you can do that with the FDK, FrameScript or XSLT. You might also take a look at the Node Wizard in FrameSLT (from www.weststreetconsulting.com). This is an invaluable tool for processing and working with structured FM files.

Cheers,

...scott