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Improve `SubmodelElementList` implementation

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by locating the current SubmodelElementList and Namespace implementation described in the issue. Research how other AAS SDKs represent SubmodelElementList without a specification-forbidden random id_short, then define and implement an approach that preserves correct serialization without requiring the placeholder identifier.

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Description

enhancement sdk

Currently the implementation of SubmodelElementList can only be described as not ideal.
We set a random id_short, even though the specification forbids it, due to the fact that we need an identifying attribute in our Namespace.
Of course, when serializing we remove the id_short, however it would be better if we didn't need it in the first place.

We should research how other AAS-SDKs solved that issue and improve our implementation.

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Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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