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semantic overloading

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:05:22 -0400

The W3C has just released a Working Draft of XML Accessibility
Guidelines:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlgl

Perhaps especially worth noting in regard to the recent namespace
discussions is this bit:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlgl#cp2_8

> If an element name may be confused, within the context of the 
> document instance, then it is said to be overloaded. If each element 
> name is unique within context it is easier to access the 
> document semantics. 

I think they mean "document instance context", given the examples which
follow.

It's some genuinely interesting stuff.

Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com

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