On 2/7/07, David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We can also make "id" a read-only property. I like escape hatches. :-)

I really do wish I'd understand what makes it too sacred to let people
decide over themselves. (Not hearing about it baits me to believe
there aren't any reasons one wouldn't be ashamed to admit.)

But if you do auto-generate id properties, as I read that, please make
them short and URL safe without %XX encoding.

> Yes, I do adhere to the "your data, your mess, your business"
> philosophy. I think the "one ring to rule them all" philosophy (ref.
> Lord of the Rings) is a bad idea (replace "ring" with format, schema,
> uber ontology).

I'm not sure how read/write (=something authors can both decide for
themselves and output in presentation mode) id attributes would be an
example of that philosophy, though. Does the above analogy add a
requirement on id:s to be world unique now, even outside of the scope
of a given exhibit? (I thought that was what the auto-generated uri:s
did.)

-- 
 / Johan Sundström, http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/

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