Am 09.03.2011 um 19:04 schrieb Mike Schrag:

>>> Why couldn't one use a randomly generated unique ID that is ten characters 
>>> long (or so)? There *could* be name collision but the chances would be 
>>> small. Alternatively, why not invent a "context sequence" that starts at 1 
>>> and counts up throughout the Request-Response loop? That would absolutely 
>>> be unique. 
>> I believe that is what they are ... a "context sequence" of sorts (^_^)  
>> Specifically, they are derived from the context().elementID().  I think how 
>> this value is created is that the first number is the contextID, followed by 
>> a '.', then each element increments the element id, and each nesting adds a 
>> '.' separator character. However, my understanding of it is likely imperfect.
> this is the default behavior, but it's not required .. for instance, 
> ERXWORepetition uses the hashcode of each repetition item instead of the 
> child element index.

In case that this special handling is turned on via the various flags in 
ERXWORepetition are turned on.

And I agree that this is a non-issue. Turn on gzip and forget about it.

Cheers, Anjo

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