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Re: RE: Namespace use cases

• From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:25:15 +0200

On 10/7/09 10:23, Michael Kay wrote:
>> I would love to hear of some success or horror stories of
>> multi-namespaces in authoring content.
>
> A very simple success story is that it proved very easy to allow XML Schemas
> to be embedded in XSLT stylesheets, despite the fact that the vocabularies
> were developed independently (without this in mind) and had overlapping
> local names, eg. xsl:element vs xsd:element.

Interesting. Can you flesh out the example --- why would someone want to 
do this?

Dan

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