IDs

[Chad Berkley]

Actually, ID's are not required to build the eml package because each
module has the "hard coded" packaging elements that dictate the
structure of the eml package.  They are only required if you want to do
a normalized reference to another element in the DOM. 

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 08:17, David Blankman wrote: 
> IDs should be required otherwise there is no way to reference the
> modules when packaging them into a single eml file. The only IDs that
> could be optional are ones that are not going to have to be referenced,
> however, I do not know of any way to make that determination. If there
> is a module that does not need to be referenced, then it probably
> shouldn't be independent.
> 
> David blankman
> 
> On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 12:42, Chad Berkley wrote:
> > A new question for everyone:  Should all ID fields be optional or
> > required or should it depend on the module in which it exists?  For
> > instance, we could say that all attributes must have an id, but not all
> > citations.  
> > 
> > comments?
> >  
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