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Re: GUID in feeds and items

GUID is a unique indentifier? except that it's not a global address,
it something useful inside a local system.

we have these already in terms of these funny URI/URL thingy's

GUID's are badly over used by developers, they are not user friendly,
they provide no useful information and they are horrible to type...

how many websites have you seen where developers create article id's
using GUID's

please keep rss simple, this guid's idea sounds like the disaster
that happened when people mixed RDF into RSS...





Wed Sep 18, 2002 12:15 pm

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Hi all, What's the point of using a GUID? What situation is going to require having one? I've suggested in the past that there needs to be a way for a program...
wkearney99
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May 20, 2002
10:08 pm

... I think this is a good idea, as long as the "more complete" XML is still of the RSS/RDF variety. That is, the compact version would be of the .9x variety,...
jdklub
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Jul 2, 2002
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... I don't know about this suggestion in that you're proposing the mix of 0.9x and 1.0 formats. While an environment may understand both is it reasonable to...
wkearney99
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Jul 2, 2002
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GUID is a unique indentifier? except that it's not a global address, it something useful inside a local system. we have these already in terms of these funny...
Zac Spitzer
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Sep 18, 2002
3:33 pm

Contrary to popular mythology, an OSF standard GUID can well be utterly unique. The value behind using a GUID is not in readability, it's in programmatic...
Bill Kearney
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Sep 18, 2002
3:36 pm

... Well, do a little more research on it. You'll find otherwise. ... Which require significantly greater amount of CPU processing as they're strings. GUIDs...
Bill Kearney
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