<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div>I was just doing some tests on exporting EAD ( AS v1.1.1 ) and I noticed </div><div>that the container ids change on every export:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="color: #021da7"><c02</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> id</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"aspace_ce99c6434158423922d1cb7269d2d6eb"</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> level</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"file"</span><span style="color: #021da7">></span><br>
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<span style="color: #021da7"><unitdate</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> type</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"inclusive"</span><span style="color: #021da7">></span>1961-1978, undated<span style="color: #021da7"></unitdate></span><br>
<span style="color: #021da7"><container</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> id</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"aspace_a8d7a56421f7fe676aece03cb158231c"</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> label</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"Text"</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> type</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"Box-folder"</span><br>
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<span style="color: #021da7"></c02></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #021da7"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #021da7"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #021da7"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="color: #021da7"><c02</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> id</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"aspace_ce99c6434158423922d1cb7269d2d6eb"</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> level</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"file"</span><span style="color: #021da7">></span><br>
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<span style="color: #021da7"><unittitle></span>William Faulkner Foundation<span style="color: #021da7"></unittitle></span><br>
<span style="color: #021da7"><unitdate</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> type</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"inclusive"</span><span style="color: #021da7">></span>1961-1978, undated<span style="color: #021da7"></unitdate></span><br>
<span style="color: #021da7"><container</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> id</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"aspace_7786fd082905fc4e886fccda4539c9b6"</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> label</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"Text"</span><span style="color: #f9975e"> type</span><span style="color: #ff9450">=</span><span style="color: #ab4500">"Box-folder"</span><br>
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<span style="color: #021da7"></c02></span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #021da7"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Is there a reason for this ? </span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;">I see that the c02/@id stays the same and is the value of the archival_object’s ref_id ( with “aspace_” prefix added ). </div><div style="margin: 0px;">If the container ids are not stored in ArchivesSpace and are generated differently on the fly for export, </div><div style="margin: 0px;">it would be better to just not add an id attribute. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">— Steve Majewski</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div></div></body></html>