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Paul Prescod writes: > Namespaces are an infrastructure technology. You use them THROUGH > something, like RDF. Without something like RDF they are > essentially useless. So unless you think that "RDF" is for the > "average developer", namespaces are not for the average > developer. When/if something like RDF takes off that situation may > change. I (politely) disagree again -- there are many applications that can take advantages of namespaces without an RDF-like infrastructure. Here are some examples: 1. Search engines (i.e. find every mention of "Megginson" in an element named {http://www.software.com/ns/}developer). 2. Browsers (i.e. set any occurrence of {http://www.software.com/ns/}keyword in monospaced type for all document types, unless overridden by a more specific rule). 3. Localization transformations (i.e. attempt to read the contents of every element with an attribute named {http://finance.com/ns/}currency as a number and convert it to the local currency if possible). All of these (and many more) can be applied to typical human-readable documents with mixed content; they're not limited to RDF-like documents. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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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