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> There's a big difference between ambiguity and aliasing. > > I think that you're overstating the difference, especially since AFs > also provide disambiguation. > > The difference is one of degree, not of kind: AFs allow you to > associate more than one universal name with a single markup item, > while Namespaces allow you to associate only one universal name with a > markup item. In other words > > Namespaces: markup-item (0,*) <-> name (0,1) > Architectural Forms: markup-item (0,*) <-> name (0,*) > ^^^^^^ What I meant, more accurately expressed. > Unfortunately, AFs came out with three strikes against them: they were > developed by ISO (yawn!), they were introduced as an appendix to the > very long and intense HyTime spec (awk!), and they weren't very webby > (oops!). They also hit a foul with their convoluted mechanism for > attribute mapping. > > I agree with Eliot Kimber and others, though, that eventually XML will > need something like AFs. > I happen to like architectures far more than namespaces. > Marc B. McDonald > Principal Software Scientist > > Design Intelligence, Inc. > 1111 Third Avenue, Suite 1500 > Seattle, WA 98101 > marc.mcdonald@d... > Ph: 206.343-7797 > Fax: 206.343.7750 > > http://www.design-intelligence.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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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