GID property

Determining the GID of the current element

The GID of FirstSpirit elements (unique, global ID) can be determined using a rule.

The expression <PROPERTY source='#global' name='GID'/> can be used in the value determination of the rule definition (or for the definition of a precondition). Since this is a generally applicable property, the object #global has to be assigned to the source attribute.

A page returns for example the information of the page (even if the rule is executed e.g. in a paragraph within a FS_CATALOG input component).
In metadata, information of the element on which the metadata was defined is returned.

Example

<RULES>
    <RULE when="ONLOCK">
        <WITH>
            <PROPERTY name="GID" source="#global"/>
        </WITH>
        <DO>
            <PROPERTY name="VALUE" source="GID"/>
        </DO>
    </RULE>
</RULES>