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• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 23:04:17 -0400
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[Simon St.Laurent]

> At 07:00 PM 8/1/2002 +0100, Richard Tobin wrote:
> > >I do not think the two elements <x:a m='1'/> and <x:a x:m='1'/> have
> > >the same attributes. You [Simon] seem to be saying that they do have
> > >the same attributes.
> >
> >Simon knows they don't have the same attributes.  He thinks the
> >namespaces spec should have been different, so that they did have the
> >same attributes.  He's knows the spec isn't going to be changed, so he
> >thinks that vocabulary designers and applications should take the
> >responsibility of always giving them the same interpretation.
> >
> >Is that right?
>
> Yes, that's what I'm saying.
>
 I could have been reasonably happy either way, but what does not work for
me is this mix-and-match situation where some systems do it one way and
others do it another way.

Cheers,

Tom P

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