RE: [election-services] Better data model - simple item

I wouldn’t use NumberId as there is no guarantee that this ID will be numeric.

Paul

From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:david@drrw.info]
Sent: 20 April 2009 00:05
To: Paul Spencer
Cc: 'eml '
Subject: RE: [election-services] Better data model - simple item - "Id"

Paul,

That is helpful feedback. I'll revisit on the use analysis. So perhaps better would be to have NumberId as the element and RefId for the internal one. Clearly when an attribute its being used to indicate linkage between content such as polling place description and geo map data, and so on.

Thanks, DW

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Subject: RE: [election-services] Better data model - simple item - "Id"
From: "Paul Spencer" <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>
Date: Sun, April 19, 2009 12:25 am
To: "'David RR Webber (XML)'" <david@drrw.info>, "'eml '"
<election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>

Hi David,

The original intention was that Id exists as an element when it is an external Id such as an electoral roll number. It is used as an attribute when it is an internal system Id.

Paul

From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:david@drrw.info]
Sent: 18 April 2009 23:36
To: eml
Subject: [election-services] Better data model - simple item - "Id"

Team,

This might be an easy one to fix? We appear to use "Id" as an attribute everywhere - but we have 4 different definitions for it.

In emlcore we could add a single type definition - and then reference that everywhere "Id" occurs.

A small step for EML...

Are there one or two other candidates? I don't want to have too many of these to do at this point - but obvious ones that are highly used seem like worthwhile to fix at this point.

Thanks, DW

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