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Re: Vocabulary Combination

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• Subject: Re: Vocabulary Combination
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 10:05:28 -0400
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At 12:02 AM 5/29/2003 -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
>Don't be silly.  Why would you want names that are unique on a wide scale 
>if you weren't going to be combining vocabularies?

That's not a silly question.

I use namespace identifiers in most of my processing, even when I don't 
plan to be combining vocabularies in single documents.  It means I can 
create pipelines which handle multiple vocabularies correctly, for 
instance, even when using tools that have long since forgotten that DOCTYPE 
exists.

The vocabulary-combination issue seems to have driven the scoping issues 
and made for a lot of never-ending conversations.  While I've written code 
that now deals with the scoping, it's still vastly complicating, and only 
rarely useful - I have a hard time seeing that as having hit an 80/20.

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