[rest-practices] Modelling membership

[Bryan Kearney]

On 05/04/2010 05:30 PM, Bob McWhirter wrote:
> I guess I see the need for both.  I consider an href to be like a C++
> pointer to *something. While that thing can certainly (and maybe
> absolutely should) have some other identifier.
>
> I don't mean to claim that the href is the identifier. It should be
> opaque, potentially ugly, but easily navigable. ID is just another
> property, perhaps with uniqueness constraints.
>
> -Bob

I liked what lutter said earlier, which was give dserializers a way to 
know that they need to go get the further data. Does the existence of

<element href="foo"/>

give you that?

-- bk