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We're writing hypothetically, about a mechanism (namespaces == architecture) which is poorly defined, but ... I would take "used to do architectural forms" to mean that the information to be inferred from a namespace declaration would supplant (some portion of) that which would otherwise have been provided by existing architectural declarations. Otherwise namespaces are just "architecture-neutral". When I wondered about how this might work, it occurred that the identity between the URI in a namespace declaration and that in the system-id of a IS10744:arch PI might be used to infer mappings equivalent to those provided by the individual architectural mapping attributes. The problem with this is that it provides no means to map the local parts of universal names. Without such a means, either a given element type maps to exactly one architectural form (my original question), or the local parts of the respective type names must be identical in all architectures (which would seem an equally severe restriction). That is, the standard architectural declarations are still necessary and, again namespaces are "architecture neutral". What mechanism were you supposing? Steven R. Newcomb wrote: > > [James Anderson:] > > > > ... Namespaces (at least the bulk of their > > > syntax and the idea of identifying a namespace via a URI) > > > could also be used to do architectural forms. > > > I've wondered about this. > > Wouldn't they, at least in their standardized form, be restricted to the > > limited fimaily of architectures which are mutually exclusive? > > I don't [yet] see why. What makes you think so? > 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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