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Re: Vocabulary Combination and optional namespaces

• To: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>, XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Vocabulary Combination and optional namespaces
• From: "W. E. Perry" <wperry@f...>
• Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:22:20 -0400
• Organization: Fiduciary Automation
• References: <ab7bdvs3gol4j4trlefsiq6g4bfbaou70f@4...> <3ED5B096.9080102@t...> <3ED6062E.4080403@b...> <002801c325e8$9b883060$a000a8c0@SeairthA31> <3ED61653.20209@b...> <umsddv448lhhshot9gjlge6fivn46elk1a@4...>

Arjun Ray wrote:

> Basically, when multiple vocabularies are in play, you can't automatically
> assume - i.e. as a default - the vocabulary to which a generic identifier
> (or attribute name) should be imputed; or for that matter, that there is
> only one relevant generic identifier for the particular element.  You need
> control information associated with the use of each vocabulary at every
> start tag (i.e. for each element structure)

Brilliant. I suggest that an understanding of Arjun's example is prerequisite
for any helpful discussion of 'namespaces' in markup. As a poetics of
vocabulary application and control it is comprehensive, elegant and
efficient--though it is not immediately concerned with ease of programmer's
access to the manipulation of XML, which over four years of discussion on
xml-dev has apparently become the chief criterion for preferring any
particular vocabulary control mechanism.

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