On 2 Dec 2016, at 15:44, Tobias M <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 2 Dec 2016, at 16:39, Kevin Smith <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> They’re long and (as far as I can see at the moment) unnecessary when a >> simple per-stanza counter would suffice - only uniqueness within a stanza is >> needed, not globally, isn’t it? > > As far as I know, technically an XML ID value needs to be unique in the whole > document, and for the XMPP case the document is the XMPP stream/session. > Using UUIDs would avoid having to go over and reassign IDs when attaching one > message to another, etc.
Oh, you meant a literal ‘id’. That’s easily avoidable just by using a different attribute :) But maybe that’s reason enough to use UUIDs. /K
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