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<h1>check_id<a class="headerlink" href="#check-id" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<tt class="descclassname">astropy.io.votable.xmlutil.</tt><tt class="descname">check_id</tt><big>(</big><em>ID</em>, <em>name='ID'</em>, <em>config={}</em>, <em>pos=None</em><big>)</big><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/astropy/astropy/tree/v0.2.4/astropy/io/votable/xmlutil.py#L24" title="Push the Edit button on the next page"><span class="edit-on-github viewcode-link"> [edit on github]</span></a><a class="reference internal" href="../_modules/astropy/io/votable/xmlutil.html#check_id"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#astropy.io.votable.xmlutil.check_id" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Raises a <a class="reference internal" href="../io/votable/api_exceptions.html#astropy.io.votable.exceptions.VOTableSpecError" title="astropy.io.votable.exceptions.VOTableSpecError"><tt class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">VOTableSpecError</span></tt></a> if <em>ID</em>
is not a valid XML <a class="reference external" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#id">ID</a>.</p>
<p><em>name</em> is the name of the attribute being checked (used only for
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