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Re: Re: URIs, concrete

• To: wperry@f... (W. E. Perry)
• Subject: Re: Re: URIs, concrete
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:59:17 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... (XML DEV)
• In-reply-to: <3D459BC6.43098718@f...> from "W. E. Perry" at Jul 29, 2002 03:47:18 PM

W. E. Perry scripsit:

> In the semantic outcome elaborated from processing such structured
> marked-up text, does the weight of the attribute derive mainly from its
> position within that structure, and specifically from the particular
> element on which it depends, rather than from the namespace in which it
> might participate.

No more definite answer can be given than "It can go either way."
Some attributes have purely local meaning (whether or not they are
in a namespace), and some have effectively global meaning (whether or not
they are in a namespace).

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