odb ODF standard conformance [was: minutes of ESC call ...]

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 12/20/2013 03:51 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 03:09:04PM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:
>> Random is probably the worst method you can think about.
>
> Why? What properties do you want from these IDs? Only that they are
> unique within the XML document, right?

...and uniqueness is not exactly a selling point for random numbers. 
(Yes, I do know Version 4 UUIDs -- and I consider them blasphemy :)

Stephan