- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:30:59 +0100
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Cc: Svgdeveloper@aol.com, xml-names-editor@w3.org, www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org, public-qt-comments@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
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 :-(. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]
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