I’m not going to comment on this whole Purple Numbers (Pink Hearts?!) thing, except to say that Joe Clark added ids to every damn element of the HTML version of his book…last summer. (at the time, “unique on the Web”!) I thought it was pretty cool, and have even once sent a link to someone on a mailing list citing a specific section that way.
There’s no visual nothing to show that those ids exist, but I think that’s okay. It’s nice to have secret knowledge once in a while.
Bah. Gimme my XPointer and I won’t NEED to put ids on every damn paragraph.
Personally, I like Mark Pilgrim’s implementation best of the ones I’ve seen.
Ralph: Ain’t that something? I was giggling like a fool: C just shook his head, sadly, as if I’d descended into an unreachable geekitude, which I guess I had.
Dorothea: So much do I not know from XPointer, although I’ve probably gotten close to it in my dinking around with XSLT. (If I wanted the 10-second intro to XPointer, what would be a good resource?)