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Re: Motivations for namespaces (sorry)

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• Subject: Re: Motivations for namespaces (sorry)
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:07:12 -0400
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[Eric van der Vlist]
>
> Thomas B. Passin said:
>
> > The namespace tells immediately which schema is in play.
>
> No, that's not always as simple.
>
> There isn't always a schema and even when there is a schema (or more than
> one schema) there is nothing in a XML document (except maybe its public ID
> which unfortunately mandates a DTD) which describes the combination used
> to mix the namespaces.

Eric, I do not really disagree with you, but I was responding to David M's
question about real applications, and I limited my remarks to the one thing
I have worked on where I am really glad that namespaces are available (not
counting xslt).

Cheers,

Tom P

• References:
  • Motivations for namespaces (sorry)
    • From: Gustaf Liljegren <gustaf.liljegren@b...>
  • re: Motivations for namespaces (sorry)
    • From: David Megginson <david@m...>
  • Re: Motivations for namespaces (sorry)
    • From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
  • Re: Motivations for namespaces (sorry)
    • From: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@d...>

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