Re: Choose your namespace (Was : Personal view)

"David G. Durand" wrote:

> >2.     have qualified names with the same local part and with
> >prefixes which have been bound to namespace names that are identical.
> >
> 
> In the context of providing "universal names" and in the context of a
> syntax definition intended to be enforced by a parser, the
> specification of comparison based on identity is rather revealing. Of
> course identity might mean that the namespace names identify the same
> resource. But it doesn't.

Note also that it is the *names* which are said to be identical.  James
Carter (former U.S. president) and James Carter (inventor of -gua!spi)
have identical names, but are not themselves identical.  On the other
hand, "Cicero" and "Tully" are distinct names, but refer to only one
resource (the famous Roman orator).

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Received on Tuesday, 20 June 2000 14:40:25 UTC