Re: [xml-dev] So maybe ID isn't a problem after all.

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:48 am, Jim Ancona wrote:
> A URI+fragment identifier IS a globally unique identifier (assuming that
> the fragment identifier points to an element named by an ID, as XPointer
> says). So cross-document graphs may be represented with a URI Reference
> interpreted as an XPointer Bare Name.

Well, we've heard that, depending on the system, the resource identified by 
the URI might not be unique... so I guess we have varying degrees of 
uniqueness.