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- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: "Steven R. Newcomb" <srn@techno.com>, "xml-dev@xml.org" <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:41:36 -0400
"Steven R. Newcomb" wrote:
> It is not helpful to retreat into statements like "There
> is nothing semantic about XML Namespaces", when in fact most people
> use names in order to label things meaningfully. Most people
> literally can't imagine using names for any other purpose.
*Names* generally have meaning. XML namespaces don't.
(Actually, XLink locator elements should only appear inside extended
> XLinks, but I haven't found a formal machine-interpretable
> expression of that constraint that I could use to define and
> constrain architectures other than the XLink architecture, using the
> same software to validate instances for conformance with such
> context constraints. We could do at least that much with DTDs.)
I think one could write an architectural DTD for XLink fairly easily,
modulo the question of user-defined prefixes.
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