<subbu> edsanders, another thought ... but, won't the id assigned to the <ref> conflict with a similar <ref> id already in the doc?
<subbu> i.e. original doc "foo <ref>x</ref>" and I paste "bar <ref>y</ref>" .. won't the ids on both the refs be identical?
<edsanders> probably
<subbu> right. so, maybe this needs a different solution instead of changing the id scheme or stripping?
<edsanders> I think out document merge code might handle that
<subbu> and also look at this: <script id="mw-pagebundle" type="application/x-mw-pagebundle">{"parsoid":{"counter":2,"ids":{"mwAA":{"dsr":[0,35,0,0]},"mwAQ":{"dsr":[0,19,0,0]},"cite_ref-1":{"dsr":[5,19,5,6]},"mwAg":{"dsr":[20,34,2,2]},"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1":{}}},"mw":{"ids":{}}}</script>
<subbu> so, all ids get assigned data-parsoid (even non-parsoid generated ones), so, you need to re-assign ids everywhere.
<subbu> parsoid just reuses existing ids if they are already present.
<subbu> so, maybe you need to just disambiguate the ids by adding an unique suffix/prefix?
<edsanders> We inline the reference content, so it isn't actually a problem
<subbu> edsanders, i am confused now .. so, are you then stripping ids everywhere (even refs) and we don't need to worry about the id scheme?
<edsanders> we can't strip the ids from refs
<edsanders> you provide the reference content in a separate list - we inline it, so we can't strip those IDs before converting to linmod as they link the reference content to the reference
<edsanders> the ID stripping is done on the parsoid/restbase response - before it goes into the converter
<subbu> i see .. the id stripping is happening in 2 phases, and ref ids cannot be stripped before it goes into linmod but you are saying you can be tripped up by the regexp you are using.
<subbu> and hence you are asking for a different id scheme

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