• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:54:09 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Paul Prescod wrote:


> I do not think that is correct. There is no way you can consider, for
> instance, the HyTime meta-DTD to be a "local" name. Architectural form
> elements are globally scoped by either or both of the public identifier
> and system identifier. The first is supposed to be globally unique and
> the second may be if you use URIs.


Fair enough.


>>Part of my AF:NG effort is to allow mappings between my names
>>and your names, whether or not they are globally unique.
> 
> That's fine, but it isn't the way AF:OG work. 


(i.e. whether or not they are in a namespace).


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