Re: Inherent Namespace Ambiguities - A Serious Fundamental Problem?

John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> writes:

> Henry S. Thompson scripsit:
>
>> Namespaces are not about disambiguating the semantics of names, just
>> names as such and their ownership.  The fact that given a name in a
>> namespace per XML Namespaces 1.0 you can't even tell whether it names
>> an element, and attribute, an ID or all three already makes that
>> clear.
>
> Quite right as to the general principle, but XML Names says an ID can't
> contain a colon, so there are no namespaced IDs.

Oops, thank -- teach me to try to do serious technical thinking after a
trans-atlantic flight :-(.

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