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• To: ricko@a... (Rick Jelliffe)
• Subject: Re: Acronym spaces, namespaces, and authority (was Re: WXS acronym?)
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 20:50:41 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <00c801c246ca$a6fa8810$4bc8a8c0@A...> from "Rick Jelliffe" at Aug 19, 2002 01:19:31 AM

Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> 2) The notion of "document type" should be brought back, as representing
> something different from a namespace.  A namespace is a vocabulary,
> a schema is rules for using that vocabulary, a document type is a combination
> of schemas combined with [...].

Only WXS (I'm sticking with that TLA for now) schemas are so closely tied
to namespaces.  RNG and Schematron schemas *expect* to deal with document
types that have names from multiple namespaces, and couldn't care less.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."
        --Brian K. Reid

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