XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Ed Davies <edavies AT nildram.co.uk>]

Steve Loughran wrote:
> ....
> The other way is just to have a URI and mandate that the URI must be
> unique, and use the uuid: schema in all your examples; java1.5 has an
> easy (but not effficient) way to generate UUIDs for you.
> ....

As I mentioned in an off-list reply to some people, the tag: scheme
is also worth consideration.  See RFC 4151 which says:

> Tag URIs (also known as "tags") are designed to be unique
> across space and time while being tractable to humans.

Certainly more tractable than UUIDs.

Ed.