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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Motivations for namespaces (sorry)
 Got some inspiration from the "Looking for an example of a name collission" thread. It's funny that no one seem to be able to present a *good* working example of how namespaces solves name conflicts. I'm not opposing namespaces myself, but I still try to find the right place for them. Namespaces doesn't seem to contribute much to data processing. I've found them more useful when mixing tags from document schemas, where tags are more likely to have the same generic names like <paragraph>, <list>, <table> and so on. It's much harder to find examples when working with data, because homonyms where both words are nouns (assuming element names are always nouns) are rare. Title and table...what more examples are there? So, assuming that you limit their use to solving name conflicts, is it right to say that namespaces are more useful for document processing? In actual use however, namespaces are not limited to solve name conflicts. It seems they are used more as a way to tell which parts of the document should be processed by which application. Still the specification seem to be all about how to solve name conflicts. Perhaps it would have been better if namespaces had been presented as a way to tie groups of element names to a certain processing enviroment, instead of merely solving name conflicts? Gustaf 
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