But, hey, isn't XML supposed to be protecting and future proofing our data and applications? Let's not limit our scope yet, interstellar travel can't be too far away.
(Remember the "Millenium Problem")
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
Sent: 07 September 2001 20:58
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
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
-----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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