On 16 Jul 2007, at 11:08, Toby A Inkster wrote:
As for #2, it's fixing the wrong problem: if changing permalinks causes the Atom ID to change, then you should fix your permalinks which are not supposed to change!
Of course _perma_links are not supposed to change. But I think the point that Mark Pilgrim makes, and one that I agree with, is that principal does and will collapse in real-world tools.
Migrating between CMS systems, rebranding to a new domain name, switching advocacy to support the ‘no-WWW’ movement? All perfectly likely and reasonable things to do, which CMS's generating permalinks have not been designed to support and a problem which, regardless of the ideal, many (most?) authors simply won't account for.
There may not be a solution to this. Fitting a tag URI into page content seems clumsy for sure, and those same CMS systems that make permalinks less-than permanent are publishing dynamically generataed permalink URLs as IDs all the while. I'm not sure that we're in a position to ‘fix’ the problem. But I think we should try to exhaust the non URL options thoroughly.
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