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[Documentation] Clarify identifier syntax

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Per code review in nasa/openmctweb#257
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@ -687,15 +687,27 @@ A domain object identifier has one or two parts, separated by a colon.
* If two parts are present, the part before the colon refers to the space
in which the domain object resides. This may be a persistence space or
a purely symbolic space recognized by a specific model provider.
a purely symbolic space recognized by a specific model provider. The
part after the colon is the key to use when looking up the domain object
model within that space.
* If only one part is present, the domain object has no space specified,
and may presume to reside in the application-configured default space
defined by the `PERSISTENCE_SPACE` constant.
* Both the key and the space identifier may consist of any combination
of alphanumeric characters, underscores, dashes, and periods.
Some examples:
* A domain object with the identifier `foo:xyz` would have its model
loaded using key `xyz` from persistence space `foo`.
* A domain object with the identifier `bar` would have its model loaded
using key `bar` from the space identified by the `PERSISTENCE_SPACE`
constant.
```bnf
<identifier> ::= <space> ":" <simple id> | <simple id>
<identifier> ::= <space> ":" <key> | <key>
<space> ::= <id char>+
<simple id> ::= <id char>+
<key> ::= <id char>+
<id char> ::= <letter> | <digit> | "-" | "." | "_"
```