Fair point. Just brainstorming here: how about making about an attribute?

<div item id="amanda" about="http://....";></div>
<p>Name: <span subject="amanda" itemprop="name">Amanda</span></p>

We still have two identifiers, but at least giving the URI is simplified.

Best,
Peter

Julian Reschke wrote:
Peter Mika wrote:
Hi All,

I've been taking a closer look at microdata. While I like the proposal in general, in particular the chance to unite microformat style annotations with some of the Semantic Web formalism (such as URIs for objects), there are still a number of points that I feel could be improved. So here are my proposals for discussion:

#1

The use of a URI as the value of the id attribute. It seems to me there is actually nothing in the spec that would stop this:
...

IDs like that would be very hard to use as fragment identifier...

> ...

BR, Julian

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