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FWIW the following is in the normative part of the namespace rec [1]: "The combination of the universally managed URI namespace and the document's own namespace produces identifiers that are universally unique." Note that it talks about identifiers (not types). Thanks, Peter [1] End of 2nd paragraph after http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/#dt-identical ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Piatko" <piatko@r...> To: "Michael Brennan" <Michael_Brennan@a...>; "'Evan Lenz'" <elenz@x...>; "Ronald Bourret" <rpbourret@r...>; <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 10:51 PM Subject: Re: Namespaces, schemas, Simon's filters. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Brennan" <Michael_Brennan@a...> > To: "'Evan Lenz'" <elenz@x...>; "Ronald Bourret" > <rpbourret@r...>; <xml-dev@l...> > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:39 PM > Subject: RE: Namespaces, schemas, Simon's filters. > > > > From: Evan Lenz [mailto:elenz@x...] > > > The namespace spec never reinforced this for me. I think this > > > goes well > > > beyond what the namespace spec dictates. > > > > I would have agreed with you just a few minutes ago. However, I just went > > back and reviewed the XML Namespace spec. Sure enough, in section A.2 > > (http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/#ns-breakdown), you'll > > find the following language: > > > > The All Element Types Partition > > All element types in an XML namespace appear in this > > partition. Each has a unique local part; the combination > > of the namespace name and the local part uniquely > > identifies the element type. > > > > Right or wrong, that's what the spec says. So either XML Schema is wrong, > or > > XML Namespaces is wrong. > > What you reference is actually in a non-normative part of the spec. So Evan > is technically correct (I believe). >
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