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- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>, xml-dev@xml.org
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:09:35 +0100
Len Bullard wrote:
>Regardless of the
> notion that XML expresses HAS-A
> relationships (containment) the
> effect of naming to a heterarchy of
> processes applied to namespaces infers
> IS-A relationships.
One of the key problems is the wollyness of these commonly usesd (or I
should say misused) names. If you replace them with the more accurate
CONSISTS-OF and HAS-BEEN-CLASSIFIED-AS you can start to see the relationship
between the two, especially if you think in terms of Whole/Part
relationships.
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