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[29] ExternalObjRef := StringifiedObjRef
An object-reference value is represented as a string literal. The format of the string is defined by the CORBA standard (Sections
13.6.6 through 13.6.7). It should be noted that some of the URL formats defined in 13.6.7 were designed to be more “humanusable?
than the stringified object reference format of Section 13.6.6 (a stream of hexadecimal digits). However, the stringified
object reference may be the only format that can be generated by some ORBs (using the operation object_to_string).
It is important to note that these object-reference values are NOT the format used to cross-reference objects within an HUTN
document, as these are instances of MOF Classes and are represented by their class name followed by their object identifier
(see
Section 6.3, “Class Representations,? on page 6-4). These object-reference values are
used to reference external CORBA objects.