RE: Discussion Topics Re-Revisited

| What John was striving at is that each element will have a way to reference,
| via a unique ID, an XML file in a repository which caontains all the
| pertinant metadata about that element.

per ISO 11179, every data element has unique identifier.  By 
administrative necessity, every registered item will have to have
a unique identifier.


regards, Terry
Terry Allen                             
Document Engineering Group               
Commerce One, Inc.
Mountain View, Calif.
tallen[at]sonic.net