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Re: Registered namespace prefixes

• To: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>,"xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Registered namespace prefixes
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:43:59 -0500
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At 2:03 PM -0500 3/8/03, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:

>You can do it fine without namespaces too though right? Surely an attribute,
>or an XPath in the dispatcher would do just as well?

They're a dozen different ways to do this. For instance, I could have 
a table of which element names belong to which vocabularies, and 
perhaps make the table context dependent. Namespaces just make it a 
lot easier.
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