Re: [libdb-develop] Hashes or Auto Increment IDs?

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Skipping the OpenURL debate and how it might lead to generic identifier=
s, I
can see great value in having XPath expressions in URLs. For example:

http://somewhere.org/author[.=3D'Morbus Iff']
http://somewhere.org/poems/*/author/@techlevel[.=3D'advanced']

AxKit and Cocoon hint at how protocols like SQL can get wrapped in XPat=
h
expressions, and I suspect that URLs will become even more overloaded w=
ith
identification information. One aspect of XPath that I think gives it a=
n
edge is that there are engines out there to work out XPath expressions,=

including one for JEdit that I have become quite addicted to. Whatever
happens, URLs always seem to grow so having some extra space for this i=
s
probably a good idea.

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