Re: [xml-dev] What are the characteristics of a good type system for XML?

"Emmanuil Batsis (Manos)" <> 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.