Hi Kevin,
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Originally Posted by KevinH
But why keep it? The idrefs are just temporary tags and they are truly meaningless in that they convey no information other than uniqueness. They don't help make reconstructing the source more precisely since any unique id work to do that. You can not use them to deduce anything new that we actually need.
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I have books in which idrefs have meaningful names, for example: p-cover, p-titlepage, p-caution, p-copyright.
Indeed they do not improve functionality, but is it not enough for reason to keep them?
Thanks,