[Bug 13007] should (resolved) itemid be unique within a document?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13007

--- Comment #13 from Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> 2011-06-22 08:16:34 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> I think you've gotten yourself confused, Philip.  Two Microdata items with the
> same @itemid are simply referring to the same abstract thing which exists
> independently from the document.  It is not comparable with @id, which names a
> particular element in the document.  You are just, say, creating two Microdata
> items which both provide information about the same book.

This may very well be the case. Calling it "global identifier of an item"
certainly makes it sounds like it's an identifier of the item, rather than an
identifier of an abstract thing which exists independently of the item.

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Received on Wednesday, 22 June 2011 08:16:36 UTC