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Multipart keys

From
James Clark <>
Date
2001-04-30T03:23:30+00:00
ID
013001c0d124$8edc3d40$
Thread
Multipart keys
One thing that significantly affects the design of an ID/IDREF replacement
mechanism is whether we support multipart keys (eg the firstName attribute
and lastName attribute together uniquely identify person elements).

Which side of the 80/20 divide do multipart keys lie on?

Note that I am not counting relative or hierarchical keys as multipart keys.
Saying that department names uniquely identify departments within companies
would not count as a multipart key.

James
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