- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:59:53 +0100 (BST)
- To: john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
At 21:08 06/06/00 +0100, David Carlisle wrote: >Namespaces don't have structure, so there is nothing you can define >about them. I agree with this, but what _does_ REC-xml-names mean when it says in section 1: "XML namespaces differ from the "namespaces" conventionally used in computing disciplines in that the XML version has internal structure..." Similar language is used in the appendix. I think it refers (somewhat awkwardly) to the fact that the same name can be used as an element and as an attribute (ie in different partitions in the language of the appendix) Of course by now it can be other things as well, xsl variables etc. But in any case it doesn't alter the fact that, even if you regard that as structure, all namespaces have the same structure, so there is nothing to define. David
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