• From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@m...>
• To: XML Developers' List <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:20:26 -0800

I concur with David Megginson's mail of Feb. 10.  Namespaces serve to
globally disambiguate names.  They do not define the syntax or semantics of
the named things: that is the business of various kinds of defining
documents, including schemas.   

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