Re: [xml-dev] The purpose of a namespace URI is ...

[Mike Sokolov <sokolov@ifactory.com>]

> I thought that -- by definition -- an XML vocabulary is a set of xs:QNames, where each local part has the same namespace URI part.
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> No?
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I don't think vocabularies generally speaking must be associated with 
namespace URIs.  In XML Schema they are, but more broadly speaking, you 
are free to define a vocabulary in no namespace, or in several 
namespaces.  At least that's how I think of it.

-Mike