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I thought of namespace prefixes as aliases. If parser is capable to resolve alias <=> alias definition than it should not matter which alias one uses to define the same namespace? Nikita Ronald Bourret wrote: >> Imagine A, B, C, D and E and all users of some XML data. A and B exchange >> data and agree to use A's namespace and that "<an:t>title</an:t>" is a >> book title (among other things). >> >> Elsewhere, C and D also exchange data and agree to use D's namespace and >> that "<dn:t>title</dn:t>" is a book title. >> >> 1. E comes along and wants to create data and exchange data with A, B, C >> and D. What does E use? If E creates a new NS "<en:t>title</en:t>" then >> A, B, C and D have to update there procedures to cater for this? >E should use <an:t> to exchange data with A and B and <dn:t> to exchange >data with C and D. If E creates their own DTD, then everybody who wants to >exchange data with E needs to update their software, which is unlikely to >make E very popular. A much better solution is to get everybody (A-E) to >agree on a single set of tags in the first place. 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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