- From: Mark P. Line <mark@polymathix.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 10:58:23 -0600 (CST)
- To: www-math@w3.org, whatwg@whatwg.org
- Cc: elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Elliotte Harold wrote: > > If you don't have xmnls and xmlns:prefix then there are no namespaces, > period. That sentence suffers from presupposition failure. 1. Syntax is not the same thing as semantics. 2. Namespaces are as namespaces do. > All we have is the document's text. That sentence suffers from terminal vagueness and presupposition failure. 1. "We" is a large, heterogeneous, ill-defined class of people and software agents for which surely no such sweeping generalization can be expected to hold. 2. "We" have the ability to design syntax that encodes namespaces any way we choose, if we choose. -- Mark Mark P. Line Polymathix San Antonio, TX
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