Re: [xml-dev] Choosing when to namespace (was Re: Vocabulary Combination)

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Seairth Jacobs <>
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2003-05-29T18:41:00Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Choosing when to namespace (was Re: Vocabulary Combination)
From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <>
>
> The assumption that RNA cannot be used inside of some other vocabulary
seems
> perhaps dangerous to me: on person's metadata is another persons data.
> Sooner or later someone will want to gobble up RNA and encapsulate it in
> some strange way. Perhaps if only to present a live RNA example on a Web
> page?  Sure, in that case you can probably arrange for no collisions, but
> maybe someone will find a reason to do some kind of indirect/dynamic or
> recursive RNA (ack!) type thing and then what?

And then nothing.  The whole purpose of the restrictions is to dissallow
such use.  RNA does not have defined meaning when inside a document of
another vocabulary.  If you encountered such a thing, it might _look like_
RNA, but it would not _be_ RNA.

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Seairth Jacobs