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Re: [dsdl-comment] Re: Re: Re: DSDL: use cases: name

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• Subject: Re: [dsdl-comment] Re: Re: Re: DSDL: use cases: namespace declaration notation
• From: james anderson <james.anderson@s...>
• Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:03:05 +0200
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David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> >  In which ways is this set of names not a namespace?
> 
> It could have been defined as being a namespace but the namespace REC (in 5.2) says
> 
> If the URI reference in a default namespace declaration is empty, then
> unprefixed elements in the scope of the declaration are not considered
> to be in any namespace.
> 
> which explictly says that that set is _not_ a namespace, so presumably
> it isn't.
> 

It says that "[they] are not considered to be in any namespace," which claim, as I noted, is bogus. That is, it is "spurious,
fictitions, and a sham", and is inconsistent with the earlier definition. 

So what does one call this 'set of names which has the name "", but which one can for historical reasons not call a namespace'?


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