- From: Chris Wilper <cwilper@cs.cornell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:28:35 -0500
- To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
Tim Bray said: > I stand by what I said in http://www.textuality.com/tag/Issue8.html ... Let me address #2 as it relates to the "namespace description" debate. > "Namespaces vary widely in semantic effect." > ... > Some namespaces make strong claims as to the content and structure. > Examples would include MathML and and SVG, which come with > very complete descriptions of their allowed content and > semantics. Given: - A namespace is a set of names. - A schema specifies syntax with regard to names from one/multiple namespace(s) - A language has names, syntax, and semantics. The concepts of namespace and language are being confused when you imply that it's possible for a namespace to "claim" or "describe" syntax and semantics. Do you think this is a problem or do you see it from another angle? - Chris
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