- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:37:37 +0200
- To: "Jens Meiert" <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
* Jens Meiert wrote: >This is probably due to historical reasons (SGML?), but why isn't it >(or shouldn't it be) allowed to use multiple IDs for a single element? You are right about SGML, but more importantly, 1:1 relationships are simpler than 1:n relationships. It's easy to answer "what is this element's unique identifier" (e.g. if you want to link the element), and it's easy to change the identifier. To make the model more flexible you have to increase complexity, and this is not necessarily a good tradeoff. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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