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>Ok. I understand that. Taken on its face, if the URL is >unique, the element strings are identical. It is the >URL that is the unique part. It only establishes a mechanism for >making it unique. It doesn't carry the promise as a Doctype does >that at the other end of this, say, system literal is a >description which not only provides a unique local namespace, >but also the frequency and occurence of that element in an instance. Is that really true? If there was going to be an official content to what the URI of a namespace points too, shouldn't it just be a definition of the element names its supports and some human consumable documentation of what they should be used for in a conforming document? It seems that mixing up namespaces and DTDs/Schemas is incorrect. DTDs and Schemas would *use* namespaces, but a namespace itself should be just a namespace, shouldn't it? Making a namespace and a DTD/Schema one and the same means that the tags in that namespace could only be used in a document that matched that DTD/Schema, which obviously would not be optimal for very open ended sets of tags. Of course, in many cases, there would be a namespace 'definition' and a DTD/Schema that was intended as its primary use I guess. But, overall, does it not make sense that the namespace 'definition' just define the tags it can support since that's really all that a namespace is: a set of tags that have meaning as a group? Just a thought... ---------------------------------------- Dean Roddey Software Weenie IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley roddey@u... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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