DDMAL/libmei — comment on commit 1f66074e11c167e26292f3046233147b7b7d580d
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By ahankinson:

It should be possible to manually set IDs, since some people prefer to have a logical (rather than random) ID naming structure. The UUID method is a default mode to ensure that we never get duplicate IDs, but if someone wants to implement their own ID system, they should be able to do it.

See all of the test docs for examples of different ID schemes, e.g.,

Maja Hartwig