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Old 12-12-2007, 05:34 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
BBeB has page numbers. And when you look at different versions of pbooks and editions, you can end up with different page numbering. If you are So basically, when you refer to page numbers on the ebook, you refer to the page number and text size and then you have it.
The id attribute is more than sufficient when linked to XMLnamespace for unambiguous references. But it takes two factors to work.

First the XMLnamespace must be truly unique for all time, unfortunately the common method of URL + location is not that, so a simple system of generating truly unique identities is needed (it not hard and a perfectly good system already exists).

The second factor is to logically apply id attribute ids to every publication (which can be achieved automatically with a simple script).

The problem with the text size is that device will change size overtime - my opinion is that the page number is basically dead as a reference point for electronic literature, milestone page numbers could be used but XML already supplies the means to elegantly deal with the problem.
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