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- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: "XML List" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:21:19 -0400 (EDT)
WorldNet writes:
> If someone could explain, I don't understand yet why a reference to
> such a 'namespace' would be useful, particularly if there is
> nothing there to access other than the seemingly ephemeral
> reference itself.
You can uniquely identify names across document types; for example, a
search engine could recognize an HTML <cite> element in many different
document types, and a rendering engine could have a library of
handlers for well-known element types.
All the best,
David
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