RE: [xml-dev] Re: AF and namespaces, once again (was Re: [xml-dev ] There is a m eaning, but it's not in the data alone)

["Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>]

>On Friday 25 January 2002 03:22 pm, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>> You go a bit further and require multiple semantics and that
>> the instance should be able to tell the system which semantics
>> it can be used with.
>
>Some people would claim that this is what namespaces do.
>
>I don't think the document is the place to specify the sets of 
>applicable semantics. 

By supplying namespaces, aren't you doing exactly that?