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Re: When to namespace a vocabulary?

• To: Uche Ogbuji <Uche.Ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: Re: When to namespace a vocabulary?
• From: Fraser Crichton <fraser.crichton@s...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:01:07 +1200
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Brilliant, thanks.

I'm particularly interested in -

"*Make distinctions in XML namespaces only when there are truly 
distinctions between the things being named.*"

I think my current problem is deciding what makes something distinct 
enough to give it it's own namespace and what level of granularity I 
should adopt.
 

Uche Ogbuji wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 11:38 +1200, Fraser Crichton wrote:
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>>What things do you think about when you decide a schema requires split 
>>up into different namespaces? 
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>>Can you point me at any articles on best practice in this area?
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>http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-namcar.html
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