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At 11:30 AM 06/13/1999 -0500, WorldNet wrote: >> >http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0 >> > >> > Is someone going to put something retrievable there? >> >> Why should something retrievable be put there? It functions just fine as >> a unique name without having to retrieve anything. > >If someone could explain, I don't understand yet why a reference to such a >'namespace' would be useful, particularly if there is nothing there to >access other than the seemingly ephemeral reference itself. The idea is that a namespace identifier just needs to be a unique differentiator among element and attribute names that otherwise might be identical across various XML applications. The URI scheme has been suggested as a familiar way to accomplish this. I still haven't made up my own mind about it, but (to me) its chief flaw is that it *suggests* to a namespace-unaware human reader that There Is a "There" There. Namespace-aware software, however, doesn't make that mistake, which (again, to me) probably renders the flaw moot. ========================================================== John E. Simpson | The secret of eternal youth simpson@p... | is arrested development. http://www.flixml.org | -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth 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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