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At 11:46 AM 9/23/99 -0700, Andrew Layman wrote: >Since there have been several recent misunderstandings of my position >regarding namespaces and schemas, I will attempt to short-cut speculation >and spell-out explicitly what I believe to be the correct relation between >the two: > >1. Namespaces serve to associate universally-unique identifiers with >qualified names. >2. Anything so identified can have, at most, one definition. I think point 2 is where I get off your train. There is no reason why something that is uniquely identified can have only one definition. Architectural forms are a classic tool for describing this situtation in markup, and in 'reality' there are many many many many many many cases where you can have multiple definitions, formal or otherwise, for the same uniquely identified thing. (Don't get me going into epistemology, please...) html:p can have multiple definitions, one strict, one transitional, yet still have the same identity. I don't see any reason why this should be considered a problem. While I'd like it to be identified as something different than letter:p, I see no reason why html:p should be constrained to a single definition. Once this deeply fictitious #2 is knocked down, I don't think the rest of your points stand in any 'universal' sense that must be applied to XHTML. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer (2nd Ed - September) Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.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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