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"Emmanuil Batsis (Manos)" <mbatsis@netsmart.gr> wrote:
| Arjun Ray wrote:
|> I think the idiotic Platonist dogma of "universal names" is the root of
|> all evil in the XML world.
|
| Hmmm. IMHO the actual problems related to universal names in XML (from
| IDs to URIs to QNames) is the perception of what their universe is and
| the absence of formal mapping mechanisms between them.
Mappings, formal or no, with absurdities is a waste of time. I've come
across many thoroughly bogus notions in my time, but to date, "universal
names" (for elements and attributes, of all things) still takes the cake.
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