diff --git a/gxml/GomElement.vala b/gxml/GomElement.vala
index 96f6f2862a8fbc0bcafce1f88e2fdbdae2d50eaf..7f7de8f725c1aa6109f35c10f62b9eaaaa025e5a 100644
--- a/gxml/GomElement.vala
+++ b/gxml/GomElement.vala
@@ -298,10 +298,8 @@ public class GXml.GomElement : GomNode,
   /**
    * An attribute called 'id'.
    */
-  public string? id {
-    owned get { return (this as GomElement).get_attribute ("id"); }
-    set { (this as GomObject).set_attribute ("id", value); }
-  }
+  [Description (nick="::id")]
+  public string? id { owned get; set; }
   /**
    * An attribute called 'class'.
    */
diff --git a/test/GomElementTest.vala b/test/GomElementTest.vala
index d2999af2875046c1af5a695a282346c83345a94d..a231741a97da8e298002ee4dde9687cdee9f8f65 100644
--- a/test/GomElementTest.vala
+++ b/test/GomElementTest.vala
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ class GomElementTest : GXmlTest  {
 				assert (elem.get_attribute_ns ("http://www.gnome.org/GXml", "xola") == null);
 				assert (elem.get_attribute ("xola") == null);
 				assert (elem.attributes.size == 2);
+				elem.id = "idnode";
+				assert ("id=\"idnode\"" in elem.write_string ());
+				assert (elem.id == "idnode");
 				try {
 #if DEBUG
 					message ("Documento:"+parser.write_string ());