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The problem with "qualified name" is that it is overloaded as both a type (QName) and as a concept (name within the scope of a namespace). > -----Original Message----- > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:58 AM > To: Ronald Bourret; Richard Tobin > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: I need a name > > > On the other hand, the universe is quite an expansion of scope. > Qualfied name makes sense and invokes no laugh tests. > > > Len > http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard > > Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. > Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@r...] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:41 PM > To: Richard Tobin > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: I need a name > > > The most common term seems to be "universal name". This is used > informally in the namespaces rec in section 1.0.: > > These considerations require that document constructs should > have universal names, whose scope extends beyond their > containing document. This specification describes a mechanism, > XML namespaces, which accomplishes this. > > It is also used by James Clark in his paper about XML > Namespaces and in > my XML namespaces FAQ. BTW, James introduces the notation > {<uri>}<local-name> -- for example, {http://www.foo.com/}a -- as a way > of spelling out universal names. I've used this in the FAQ as well. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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