[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Lexicographic fun with namespaces (really)
In a previous life, I did a bunch of work with the Oxford English Dictionary. They now have a nice web site (http://www.oed.com). If you check out the "What's new" link, there's an appeal for word citations for the next big rev of the dictionary. I was bemused to discover that the word "namespace" does not appear in the OED or its "Shorter" (and somewhat more recent) sibling. I have gleefully submitted a reference from http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names, but obviously this is not the first time the word "namespace" was ever used. The OED editors care (a lot) about finding the first time a word is used. And if this crowd can't find that first citation, nobody can. It'd be in either the theory literature on either programming languages or DBMS one would think, right? So... I'll buy a really good dinner at the next conference or other opportunity for the astute individual who finds (and submits to the OED) the earliest credible published reference to the word "namespace". Have at it. -Tim 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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