With all the different IDs floating around in the DTDs and Schemas, are there any ideas on helping to distinguish which is
which? For all the DTD cares, I could specify a Survey ID as a Station IDREF.
Would it be helpful to put a naming convention on the IDs? What I am proposing is this: adding a specific prefix to an ID to
help distinguish its intended usage. The draft DTD on which I'm working has Station and Survey IDs. (Ralph's has more:
Shots, Provenance elements, etc so he will need more prefixes). Here's what I have so far:
Element Prefix Description
Station N _N_ode
Shot E _E_dge
Survey S _S_urvey
This also helps address a concern on generating IDs. With a preset Prefix for all IDs, the rest could be easily generated
from an incremental number, the station name, or ? There is nothing to preclude this list from expanding to add IDs for
Cave, System, or other elements. While these are only single character prefixes, that should not be considered a limit. The
prefixes could also be "ST" for Station.
Comments?
- Richard Knapp
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