- From: <JOrendorff@ixl.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:31:29 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org
Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor wrote: > The one (and only one) thing that the XML Namespace > Recommendation is good for is name disambiguation. AFs > allow you to map a name into an architecture, which is > a rather different process. Strictly true, but additionally, the fact that two different documents each have <foo> elements from the same namespace is a strong hint that <foo> means the same thing in those two documents. For standards like XSL, where there's not a DTD that might provide this hint, it's nice. That isn't really explicit anywhere <abbr>AFAIK</abbr>. It may become explicit. An upcoming spec, like XML Schemas, may hijack the xmlns URI for its own purposes. That could break a few things. But the more I think about the idea, the less I dislike it. -- Jason
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