RE: namespace usage as assertions

Joe Kesselman wrote,
> > every namespace is a scope which contains every possible 
> > legal XML name
>
> This is the level at which I have trouble with the assertion 
> that "a namespace is a vocabulary"  -- I'm having a bit of 
> trouble wrapping my mind around a definition of "vocabulary" 
> which has an infinite set of members.

Really? I'd guess that all of us on this list are quite
comfortable with using regualar expressions to define 
vocabularies. And any time we, for example, define an 
identifier as [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]* we've specified a
vocabulary with an infinite number of members.

Cheers,


Miles

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