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Re: limits of the generic

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• Subject: Re: limits of the generic
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:21:38 -0400
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020927200344.02ffec00@n...>

Jonathan Robie writes:
> I would like to have a small number of constructs, such as hrefs,
> that can be used across XML vocabularies. What's wrong with that?

Nothing, provided you don't expect the whole world to use your
semantics.  In a smaller scope than "all XML", you're welcome to do
whatever you like with such things.  

Pretend that it applies beyond the boundaries of your particular
application, and I think you've made an enormous mistake.  Encourage
others to make the same mistake, and the mistakes grow, even coming with
tools to encourage their multiplication.




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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
http://simonstl.com may be my URI
http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

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