"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
>
> At 12:02 AM 5/29/2003 -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
> >Don't be silly. Why would you want names that are unique on a wide scale
> >if you weren't going to be combining vocabularies?
>
> That's not a silly question.
>
> I use namespace identifiers in most of my processing, even when I don't
> plan to be combining vocabularies in single documents. It means I can
> create pipelines which handle multiple vocabularies correctly, for
> instance, even when using tools that have long since forgotten that DOCTYPE
> exists.
>
is this less a vocabulary combination because it is temporal reather than lexical?
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