• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• To: 'John Cowan' <cowan@m...>
• Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:37:08 -0700

> No need for it.  URIs can be made to nest, and there is no 
> real reason for
> inheritance, since qualifying a name with a namespace doesn't give it
> any particular semantics.

?

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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