[tei-council] keeping @ident unique

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 5 Jan 2014, at 17:35, Syd Bauman <s.bauman at neu.edu> wrote:

>> establish as a point of principle that there is a single name space
>> for the identifiers of all identifiable objects (modules, elements,
>> classes, macros...) and document this in tcw21
> 
> I may be misunderstanding, but this seems like it might tie us down
> later on. What if someday we want a <scheme> or <unit> element?

then we’d make them have unique identifiers?

> Or
> what do we do with ident=s of the current <org> and org=?

eh? <org> doesn’t have @ident.

> I'm wondering if we wouldn't do better to have a single name space
> for each *type* of identifiable object.

that’s a given, I think, and where we are now. 
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