RE: [xml-dev] ANN: an XML Schema simpleType for UUIDs with noencoded inf

["Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>]

Michael Kay wrote:

> Why would you want your application to depend on UUIDs 
> having exactly this format? 

It is possible to create a version of UUID that has information encoded in it - timestamp and the network node address. For some environments, such encoded information is not acceptable.

It is also possible to create a version of UUID that has no information encoded it it - it is truly a random identifier. In the mentioned environments, this is the only acceptable version of UUID. I defined a simpleType that constrains the set of UUIDs to only this version.

/Roger