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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 100 22:39:51 -0500 (EST)
Tim Bray scripsit:
> The namespace spec could have said one of three things:
>
> 1. These must always be treated as identical
> 2. These must always be treated as different
> 3. Applications can make up their minds
>
> The then-Working Group eventually went for #3. It's kind of like
> non-Euclidean geometries; each of the three options above produces a
> self-consistent universe, so the only question is, which one do we
> want to live in?
Actually #2 and #3 amount to the same thing. There's no way a standard
can say that an application *must* distinguish between things.
If an application chooses to treat the attributes "luxuryyacht" and
"throatwarblermangrove" as having the same significance, then
no standard can prevent it.
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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