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Actually, I view the example in a different light (reproduced below): [[[ <section><title>Book-Signing Event</title> <signing> <author title="Mr" name="Vikram Seth" /> <book title="A Suitable Boy" price="$22.95" /></signing> <signing> <author title="Dr" name="Oliver Sacks" /> <book title="The Island of the Color-Blind" price="$12.95" /></signing> </section> ]]] In my opinion, The more semantically correct attribute name for the "title" attribute of the "author" element would be "prefix", not "title". So (with all due respect to the author of this example), I personally don't believe that this is the best example to illustrate the concepts. Kind Regards, Joe Chiusano Booz | Allen | Hamilton "W. E. Perry" wrote: > > Absent a context--specifically a syntactic instance of XML (a document)--these > apparent isonyms can be said to collide only at the level of universal names. > Since the scope of XML names is by definition constrained to a document, > collision on the universal plane (if such collision might occur at all, or > indeed if such a plane might even be identified with reference to the > definition of XML) is utterly outside both the realm of Bill de hÓra's > question and indeed outside of those questions of naming which can be framed > within the defined terms of XML. Indeed, Bill de hÓra has already directly > addressed your example with his parsing of 'title' into the three occurrences > of markup in which it appears in the Namespaces Rec example. > > Respectfully, > > Walter Perry > > Chiusano Joseph wrote: > > > Here are several off the top of my head: > > > > (1) "feet": > > > > - One occurrence could be a string that contains the anatomical > > condition of a foot, perhaps in a list of body parts in a doctor's form; > > > > - Another occurrence could be a distance; > > > > NOTE: I believe that using an element named "feet" is probably not a > > good approach, as it is not sufficiently semantically descriptive - > > especially in the second case, which really should be "Distance" (or > > similar), with an attribute containing the unit of measure. > > > > (2) "title": > > > > - One occurrence could be the title of a book; > > > > - Another occurrence could be a title on a house; > > > > (3) "StateCode" - I think this is the best example of the 3 > > > > - One occurrence could be a US state; > > > > - Another occurrence (in a scientific context) could be the state of an > > element (gasous, etc. - I don't recally the other possibilities) > > > > This third example could very well occur in a domain such as the US > > Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> begin:vcard n:Chiusano;Joseph tel;work:(703) 902-6923 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.bah.com org:Booz | Allen | Hamilton;IT Digital Strategies Team adr:;;8283 Greensboro Drive;McLean;VA;22012; version:2.1 email;internet:chiusano_joseph@b... title:Senior Consultant fn:Joseph M. Chiusano end:vcard
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