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- From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:26:11 -0800
The namespaces specification is about telling names apart. There may be
semantics associate with the names, and in that case, distinguishing names
is a precondition of distinguishing semantics.
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Park [mailto:donpark@docuverse.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 3:20 PM
To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject: RE: The per-element-type namespace partition
>That disclaimer aside, I recall that a major part of the
>motivation for the distinction was the desire to allow for
>"global attributes," where a qualified attribute such as
>"foo:href" could have a definition and meaning independent
>of the element within which it appeared, and at the same time
>continue the current practice fostered by DTDs in which an
>unqualified attribute may have a definition and meaning local
>to the enclosing element.
But namespaces are not about semantics but about
avoiding name clashes. In other words, the namespace
spec is about telling 'foo:href' apart from 'html:href'
and not about what 'foo:href' means within a certain
element. Am I mistaken?
Best,
Don Park - mailto:donpark@docuverse.com
Docuverse - http://www.docuverse.com
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