- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:19:58 -0400
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: Svgdeveloper@aol.com, xml-names-editor@w3.org, www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org, public-qt-comments@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
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.
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