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Again, don't confuse message with medium. A namespace has no necessary effect on the meaning of the message. It is a medium-specific or systemic solution to the problem of disambiguating syntactically identical productions. That you might then use that for meaningfulness is possible but not necessary. Stephen Jay Gould compares this to the spandrels in a church. They are a side effect of the architecture that was adapted for use in housing images of the evangelists, then to the four sacred rivers etc, but that aspect of evolution has nothing to do with their origin. Monkeys are free. It is the joy of the poverty of intelligence. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@s...] No explicit semantics, certainly, but surely the whole point of a namespace is to imbue its names with with meaning. Unless there's a thousand monkeys typing well-formed XML schemas somewhere...
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