RE: I need a name

[Jeff Lowery <jlowery@scenicsoft.com>]

The problem with "qualified name" is that it is overloaded as both a type
(QName) and as a concept (name within the scope of a namespace). 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:58 AM
> To: Ronald Bourret; Richard Tobin
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: I need a name
> 
> 
> On the other hand, the universe is quite an expansion of scope. 
> Qualfied name makes sense and invokes no laugh tests.
> 
> 
> Len 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald Bourret [mailto:rpbourret@rpbourret.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:41 PM
> To: Richard Tobin
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: I need a name
> 
> 
> The most common term seems to be "universal name". This is used
> informally in the namespaces rec in section 1.0.:
> 
>    These considerations require that document constructs should
>    have universal names, whose scope extends beyond their
>    containing document. This specification describes a mechanism,
>    XML namespaces, which accomplishes this.
> 
> It is also used by James Clark in his paper about XML 
> Namespaces and in
> my XML namespaces FAQ. BTW, James introduces the notation
> {<uri>}<local-name> -- for example, {http://www.foo.com/}a -- as a way
> of spelling out universal names. I've used this in the FAQ as well.
> 
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