Hi, any chance we could make the db indexed ids match the xml doc ids?

db:open-id() could match the id at the root of then documents (when one is provided)
db:node-id() could match other nodes match internal ids (when they are provided). It would make indexing and querying a lot more efficient for any type of navigation/linking purposes.

Options:

I'd suggest that this could be an option that can be turned on/off for each doc level ids and node level ids
I'd suggest that node id has the option to be unique within the db or within a document when the value for the entire db would then have to become something like doc-id#node-id to stay unique within the db

Then I can easily imagine also expending to db:save-id to reduce the workload of having to pass through base-uri() once the doc exists in the db under its path

let $db-name := 'en-us'

let $doc := db:open-id($db-name, $doc-id)

let $new-doc := copy, modify, return copy

db:replace-id('en-us', $doc-id, $new-doc)

instead of

let $db-name := 'en-us'

let $doc := db:open($db-name)/*[@id=$doc-id]

let $new-doc := copy, modify, return copy

let $path := substring-after($doc/base-uri(), $db-name)

return db:replace($db-name, $path, $new-doc)

Is that something that can be considered?