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Paul Prescod writes: > Tim claims that a namespace is not a resource of any sort. I cannot speak for Tim, but here's one way to think of it: <strawman> The Namespace is the *abstraction* of the collection of XML names that happen to share the same URI part (the Platonic Ideal of the collection, if you will). </strawman> I don't know if I actually agree with this; on the other hand, if we had waited to get the philosophy right before releasing Namespaces, we'd have been talking for years. Please don't complain that the W3C isn't ISO or the EU. We batted around a lot of ideas like this during the design process, but we were at least smart enough to realize that we weren't smart enough to do that much that fast. 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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