Re: terminology for purple numbers

From: Murray Altheim (murray.altheim@sun.com)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 23:15:18 PDT


Eric Armstrong wrote:
[...]
> Ontologically, speaking, though, I don't like the use
> of "id" because "id" suggests a 1:1 mapping. There are
> many paths to a single node, however. That many:1 mapping
> is inconsistent with the XML notion of "id" as a unique
> identifier.

There's only one hierarchical path to the node using the specific
trajectory defined in both Purple and plink. "3b10" indicates a
unique place in the document with no ambiguity, and this is why
both Eugene and I have agreed upon "hid". If we were to settle on
"path" or "pid" we would leave open why *type* of path we were
using, and the 1:1 mapping would as you say be lost.

Murray

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