- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:05:03 +0100 (BST)
- To: michaelm@netsol.com
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
> The viewpoint of 'namespace as differentiator only' is that it > only has to be unique within what scope? The document, the application > or the universe? This is explained, in of all places, the namespace rec. The purpose of xml namespaces is to define xml names such that they have scope "beyond their containing document" (presumably to the universe, given your three choices). This is accomplished by giving the namespace a name which is a URI uri reference and you can make sure the name is unique by using an absolute URI of a resource you control. (but using the URI as the namespace name does not mean that the resource _is_ the namespace) David
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