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- From: Francis Norton <francis@redrice.com>
- To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>
- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 09:52:18 +0000
"Roger L. Costello" wrote:
>
>
> One simple solution is that when you create Chameleon components assign
> them a global unique id (a GUID). The XML Schema spec allows you to add
> an attribute, id, to all element, attribute, complexType, and simpleType
> components. This id attribute can be used by a tool to "locate" a
> Chameleon component, regardless of what "face" (namespace) it currently
> wears. That is, the tool opens up an instance document using DOM, and
> the DOM API will provide the tool access to the id value for all
> components in the instance document.
>
Could one (should one?) generalise this to suggest a convention whereby
we use IDs for syntactic re-use and namespaces for semantic re-use?
It has a certain appeal - namespaces carrying more obvious semantic
information than GUIDs...
Francis.
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Francis Norton.
why not?
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