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Re: linking, 80/20

• To: elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
• Subject: Re: linking, 80/20
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:26:53 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <p0433010eb9870fa710d9@[192.168.254.4]> from "Elliotte Rusty Harold" at Aug 19, 2002 05:13:56 PM

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> >Naah.  Namespaces are designed to prevent name collisions and that's it.
> >Anything else is all in your head.
> 
> That's the common refrain, and it may be true historically, but in 
> practice I don't believe it. The primary use I see for namespaces is 
> to quickly and easily recognize elements from particular 
> vocabularies, even in the absence of local name conflicts. Resolving 
> name conflicts is actually quite rare.

I agree with that at the level of element types and attribute names.
I don't agree at the level of documents, which is the level Len was
talking about (and I suspect you don't either): there is no such thing
(except by accident) as "a document in a namespace".  Multi-namespaceness
is the true nature of XML documents.

-- 
John Cowan       http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        <jcowan@r...>
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  `Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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