Tobie Langel wrote: > ... > I'm also concerned about naming the method adequately. Sam suggested > Element#denominate which looks nicer than (generate|assign)Id but > which I fear could be confused with setting the "name" attribute. The > only other option I came up with is Element#identify. Thoughts on this > issue ? > > Also, I'm wondering whether the method should return the element - for > chaining purposes and to follow the general pattern of the other DOM > methods - or the generated id itself, which IMHO would proove more > useful here. Again, what are your thoughts ? > > Thanks for your valuable input, > > Tobie > The function seems more useful if it returns the id. I'd vote for the name Element#getId(). Then you can call the function and always get an id back regardless of whether the element has an id already. I like Jeff Watkin's exact implementation. I think that the namespacing idea is interesting but an edge case--creating groups of elements is as easy as creating a hash:
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