Re: [SED-ML-discuss] id attribute for SEDML class?

[Dagmar W. <dag...@un...>]

Maybe it is time to be consistent and have IDs on ALL SED-ML elements.


On 09/23/2010 03:41 PM, Richard Adams wrote:
> Dear  SED-MLers,
>    I was wondering what anybody thought about adding some sort of
> identifier attribute to the top-level SEDML element? I think there
> might be a need for it, because at present there is no way of reliably
> distinguishing, programmatically, between different SEDML objects. Any
> tool or database  that could need to work with multiple SED-ML
> descriptions lacks a  business key to refer to these objects.
>
> In SBML, for example, this is covered by the  enclosing 'model'
> element with its 'id' attribute.
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>    Cheers
>       Richard
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