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Paul Prescod wrote: > If I have an element that teaches a topic, and I give it an ID, and then I > delete that chapter, but there is another chapter that could also teach > the topic, shouldn't I be able to transfer the ID? IMO no. Two objects with the same ID are really the *same* object, not just equivalent for a specified purpose. (To a learner, your chapters might be equivalent; to a bibliographer, they wouldn't be.) > Anyhow, whether names are arbitrary or not, the real problem is that there > is only one ID namespace when we really need many of them. IDs name an > element, but elements can need multiple names, just as anything else can. Yes, but IDs aren't the way to model user-friendly names. This email has many "names", but only one Message-ID, which is as it should be; that Message-ID is globally unique unless there are bugs somewhere. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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