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- From: Marc.McDonald@Design-Intelligence.com
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:36:41 -0700
> There's a big difference between ambiguity and aliasing.
>
> I think that you're overstating the difference, especially since AFs
> also provide disambiguation.
>
> The difference is one of degree, not of kind: AFs allow you to
> associate more than one universal name with a single markup item,
> while Namespaces allow you to associate only one universal name with a
> markup item. In other words
>
> Namespaces: markup-item (0,*) <-> name (0,1)
> Architectural Forms: markup-item (0,*) <-> name (0,*)
>
^^^^^^ What I meant, more accurately expressed.
> Unfortunately, AFs came out with three strikes against them: they were
> developed by ISO (yawn!), they were introduced as an appendix to the
> very long and intense HyTime spec (awk!), and they weren't very webby
> (oops!). They also hit a foul with their convoluted mechanism for
> attribute mapping.
>
> I agree with Eliot Kimber and others, though, that eventually XML will
> need something like AFs.
>
I happen to like architectures far more than namespaces.
> Marc B. McDonald
> Principal Software Scientist
>
> Design Intelligence, Inc.
> 1111 Third Avenue, Suite 1500
> Seattle, WA 98101
> marc.mcdonald@design-intelligence.com
> Ph: 206.343-7797
> Fax: 206.343.7750
>
> http://www.design-intelligence.com
>
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