Re: [Bug-gnupedia] A Detailed Proposal - Mk I

[Mike Warren]

P?l Brattberg <address@hidden> writes:

> > Embedding a server-name in the actual data seems like a bad idea;
> ...
> > <article id="some-unique-id" [version="1.2"]>whales</article>
> >
> > Ideally, the version would be left out, too,
> ....

> It would be grand if the ID would reflect the version of the
> article, like so: My article about whales has ID of xxxwhalexxx-1
> But, after I've updated it, the new ID is xxxwhalexxx-1.1

The reason I though separating the two is a good idea is this: suppose
you just want to link to the information about whales, but want the
latest (and presumably best) version?

> Still, the old version would be there, since it's another version,
> but it would be really easy to show that there are more recent
> versions of this article to whomever is looking at the old version.

True. I just think separating the version from the ID allows more
flexibility and a less cumbersome interface. Certainly, the
opportunity exists to link to specific versions of articles, but I
imagine this would be the exception, not the norm.

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