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- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- To: XML-DEV <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:52:34 +0200
Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>
> Actually, it is an issue: if namespaces are to be taken from DTD, then
> every different possible combination of modularized HTML has its own
> effective DTD and will therefore need its own namespace.
>
> So we are not talking about 3 namespaces for XHTML, but potentially
> dozens!
That is not true. If schemas are paramaterizable then we can have one
namespace per schema but still have only a few namespaces. In a
programming language every function has a name, not every possible
combinations of functions:
add( multiply(1,2),multiply(3,4))
not
addmultiplymultiply(1,2,3,4)
Paul Prescod
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