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At 13:20 15/01/2002 -0500, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: >On Tuesday 15 January 2002 12:34 pm, John Aldridge wrote: > > Actually, CSV++ would also need some equivalent of XML namespaces, > > in order to allow (but not require) applications to draw their > > column names from a vocabulary with well understood meanings. > >Got to be careful with that word "meanings" here though. I would say >"from a standardised vocabulary". Um, at the risk of provoking a philosophical discussion using long words which I won't understand :-) I'm using "meanings" in the sense that, for example, the Dublin Core element "dc:Creator" /means/ "An entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource". -- Cheers, John
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