- From: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:03:26 +0100
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
Joe Kesselman wrote, > > every namespace is a scope which contains every possible > > legal XML name > > This is the level at which I have trouble with the assertion > that "a namespace is a vocabulary" -- I'm having a bit of > trouble wrapping my mind around a definition of "vocabulary" > which has an infinite set of members. Really? I'd guess that all of us on this list are quite comfortable with using regualar expressions to define vocabularies. And any time we, for example, define an identifier as [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]* we've specified a vocabulary with an infinite number of members. Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin Cromwell Media Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews +44 (0)20 8817 4030 London, W6 0LJ, England msabin@cromwellmedia.com http://www.cromwellmedia.com/
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