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hpyle@a... wrote: > > Paul Prescod wrote, > > I don't think that "average developers" need to worry about namespaces. > ... > > If you are building a > > typical one-organization application then what are you doing with "other > > people's tags" in your documents? > > Maybe my perspective is a little warped. I'm working on healthcare > applications in the UK - interoperability will (sometime) become a big > deal. :-) Even so, people have been solving these sorts of problems without namespaces for years (i.e HL7 initiative). In order to exchange documents in healthcare it is probably NOT necessary to mix elements from different document types *blindly*. That's all namespaces help with. If you know in advance what element types must be mixed in a document of a particular type then you can just choose names that do not clash (or use a simple prefixing convention). -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --Faith Whittlesey 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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