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Architectural Forms and Namespaces (Was: Re: SAX, Java, and Namespaces )

• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: Clark Evans <clark.evans@m...>
• Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:10:24 -0500 (EST)

Clark Evans writes:

 > > Of course, I know that I could do all of this with 
 > > architectural forms as well.
 > 
 > You can do _all_ of it with both?  I had pictured
 > a combination punch to solve the problem.  I see 
 > namespaces and architectural forms as yet another 
 > complementary system within XML.

Architectural forms can do everything that namespaces do, but not in
such a web-friendly way.  Namespaces can handle only a small subset of 
what architectural forms can do.

 > I don't see one or the other used.  I see them 
 > being used in combination.  What am I missing?

The AF equivalent of a qualified name is the URL or public ID of the
meta-DTD file combined with the architectural form.  It hasn't really
taken off, though, and I agree that self-identifying AFs
(i.e. qualified names) show some promise.


All the best,


David

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