Re: [xml-dev] limits of the generic

[Arjun Ray <aray@nyct.net>]

"Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net> wrote:

| I view the current namespaces as being basically a standardized way to 
| mung the names. 

Fair enough.

| Out of a universe of possible approaches we select one.  The way I look 
| at it, that is a constraint or specialization, even though it allows one 
| to distinguish between vocabularies.

Unfortunately, that has always been a non-problem.  But you're right, it
is a constraining of the original spec.