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--- Bob Hutchison <hutch@x...> wrote: > To represent these graph structures in a useful way, I've found that a > globally unique identifier is needed. This is because, in my experience, > some elements begin to appear in more than one document generated by the > application. In other words graph structures rarely are, in my experience, > confined to a single document. Something can be an ID and not satisfy the > practical requirements for graph representation. A URI+fragment identifier IS a globally unique identifier (assuming that the fragment identifier points to an element named by an ID, as XPointer says). So cross-document graphs may be represented with a URI Reference interpreted as an XPointer Bare Name. <snip/> > So, I don't believe IDs are sufficient for the practical requirements of > graph structures, and XML doesn't support any kind of application > independent means of representing graph structures anyway. What about XPointer? Jim ===== Jim Ancona jim@a... jancona@x... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com
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