[topicmapmail] About item identifiers and serialization

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Joril Andersen
>
> when two topics merge, the new topic C will(probably) have two item  
> identifiers, which one is used to extract the id attribute in the  
> XTM document when the topic map is serialized?

That's up to the serializer. You can use neither if you want to.  
Also, if you want to preserve both item identifiers you can use the  
<itemIdentity> element (in XTM 2.0).

--Lars M.