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Originally Posted by llasram
Ah, cool. *relaxes* Did the IDPF not want to use your algorithm because they didn't want to "require" books to have a UUID <dc:identifier/>, or was there some other reason?
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This was voiced, but there were other reasons as well.
It is fairly misleading to talk about an organization such as IDPF as if it were a person. There are many different people with different agendas and opinions. A person can endure pain in one body part for the pleasure of another. Standard-developing process mostly works through consensus, so a solution has to be found that satisfies everyone. Basically, once you commit to standartizing, you have to think in terms of what is acceptable, not in terms of what (you think) is the best. To a lesser extent that applies to working in any big organization or "you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow".
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And because everyone always asks you semi-related questions every time you show up  , is that approach going to apply to e.g. /package/spine/@page-map vs. /ncx/pageList as well?
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I think IDPF will explicitly "bless" NCX pageList to provide page map information. Only minor changes to the spec are needed (but changes are needed; contraty to what some people claim, this functionality is not in the spec right now).
BTW, the way I show up is mostly by searching for threads that have the word "epub" used.
Peter