xml-dev - RE: power uses of XML vs. simple uses of XML

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>]

> Gavin wrote:
> 
> "Most applications are not structured for arbitrary embedding."
> 
> Absolutely right, but most documents ARE written to be processed by many
> applications. Documents that use namespaces provide a single, 
> simple way for all applications to pick out exactly what they are 
> to process. 

How do I tell your application how to process my namespace
(ie. bind the semantics)? Name disambiguation is a trivial problem.
Using disambiguated names is not.

> Using your approach every application has to have its 
> own little bit of AI.

Or a stylesheet, or some other such mechanism.