[Zope] ID's in one XML Document nt unique?

[Paul Prescod]

Well, you may have figured this out by the time I find a phone line to
send this message but you two seem to be talking about different kinds
of IDs. XML documents have a notion of "ID" (a document-unique element
identifier).

 Paul Prescod

Martijn Pieters wrote:
> 
> At 15:32 07/09/99 , Martijn Faassen wrote:
> >Amos Latteier wrote:
> > >
> > > At 04:51 PM 9/5/99 -0500, Stephan Richter wrote:
> > > >since you are the creator of XML documents, I wanted to ask you
> > whether the
> > > >node IDs in the XML document tree are not necessarily unique. I have a XML
> > > >document  and I try to create an index. I planned of using the node
> > IDs from
> > > >the tree as my identifiers. But I noticed that I have an ID twice.
> > Yes, it is
> > > >at a different level of the tree.
> > > >
> > > >Is this a bug? Is there another way to accomplish my task?
> > >
> > > This is not a bug. It is possible to have a URL like this
> > >
> > >   e5/e5/e17
> >
> >Hm, I'm confused. Doesn't the _make_id() function in Node.py make sure
> >each node in an XML Document has an unique ID? How do duplicate ids
> >arise this way? Also, why allow duplicate ids at all?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Martijn
> 
> Not the individual parts strings deimited by slashes are unique, but the
> URL as a whole is.
> 
> _make_id() makes sure there are no two elements with the same URL, it does
> so by making sure there are no two elements with the same id on one level
> of the URL.
> 
> e5/e5/e17 addresses one element only, e5/e5/e18 another. So does e6/e5/e17.
> 
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