$\left<x|x^{\prime}\right>$ in bra-ket notation in coordinate representation

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I am having a hard time understanding why $\langle x|x^{\prime}\rangle=\delta(x-x^{\prime})$. Is this a purely formal expression as a consequence of $|\psi\rangle=\int|x\rangle\langle x|\psi\rangle dx$?

I think some abuse of notation is happening and we kind of extend the inner product to some space containing the Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ where the inner product is originally defined.

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To get $\langle x | \psi \rangle = \int \langle x | x' \rangle \langle x' | \psi \rangle \, dx$ where $\langle x | \phi \rangle = \psi(x)$ we need to have $\langle x | x' \rangle = \delta(x-x')$.

I think that the notation is beautiful, but it is be a bit difficult to translate everything to rigorous mathematics.