Re: non-human readable naming ...

[Mathieu Lacage <lacage email enst fr>]

Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com> writes:


> > is company name, I know of extremely few companies with the same name, and
> > even fewer that make software
> 
> And if you use "domain name" rather than "company name", you can only
> have conflicts among components written at different times. (Actually,
> learning from Y2K, we should assume that today's Bonobo components
> will be around in 30 years, and include "year" or something in the ID
> too. [A full ISO8601 date is too much like a random number...]

Unless I am plain stupid, XML has something called Namespaces
and this is solved using unique URIs.

I cannot see why this could not be used here.

http://domain/file#company/project#version

Or whatever you like best.

Mathieu

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