- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 19:43:15 -0800
- To: Charles Kung <chuck@yahoo.com>, xml-names-issues@w3.org
At 07:34 PM 12/8/98 -0800, Charles Kung wrote: >"In this example, there are three occurrences of the name >title within markup, and the name alone clearly provides >insufficient information to allow correct processing by a >software module." > >however, the name title is part a unique path >and most software modules can determine the correct >title from a path. e.g. /section/title/, /signing/author/title, >etc. isn't there an inherent namespace derived from the >structure of the document. Yes, but I don't think software should have to take care of keeping track of all the possible context information in order to recognize the tags that it is responsible for. The namespace machinery allows such recognition unambiguously and in a context-independent manner, which seems easier to me. In the environment where you have tags coming from multiple sources, the recognition problem is even uglier and the namespace syntax makes it go away. -Tim
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