- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:59:07 -0800
- To: "Andrew Layman" <andrewl@microsoft.com>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
I think the term "targeting" might be the confusing part - it is at least in my mind certainly meant as disambiguator. How the mapping happens from blocks to handlers and vice versa is an implementation choice. Henrik >I have not followed this thread, so I may be missing some >context, but the suggestion to use namespaces to target >anything appears to go against the intention of the Namespaces >specification. A namespace is simply a means to disambiguate >names. One could, for some namespaces, infer some semantics >associated with the namespace as a whole, but that would >certainly not be true of all namespaces (and would also, in my >opinion, be bad design). > >One might very reasonably say that an element name or type >causes association with a particular handler. It is also true >that element names and types are often associated with >namespaces. But, the "targetting" is better a function of the >element name or type than the namespace lending that name or >type universal identification.
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