- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:35:44 -0500
- To: John Boyer <JBoyer@PureEdge.com>
- CC: paul.downey@bt.com, www-tag@w3.org, derhoermi@gmx.net
John Boyer wrote: > On the other hand the namespaces rec does define a namespace > as a collection of names plus a uri. So whether or not the > uri changes when the list of names changes, the namespace is > changed when the list of names changes. > Something has been bothering me about this assertion throughout the threads. Why do you assume that collections are time invariant? In general, they're not. For instance, the collection of all living people on planet Earth or all episodes of "As the World Turns" changes on a pretty regular basis. Does adding a new item to a collection necessarily mean the collection is now a different collection? And even if it is true in some mathematical formalisms that collections are made up of a fixed and unchanging set of members, is that the definition of collection used or implied by Namespaces in XML? -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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