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> From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of > Reynolds, Gregg > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 11:11 PM > To: xml-dev@i... > Subject: RE: Musing over Namespaces > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Don Park [mailto:donpark@d...] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 1:37 PM > > > > I started with the question: "Why isn't there namespaces > > in normal languages like English?" A boring and divergent > > question. > > Who told you English was normal? Actually: shouldn't the question be about languages in general? In that case I'd say that the different national languages *do* form a kind of namespace. It shouldn't be too hard to find an example where a word "x" has the same spelling but completely different meanings in for instance German and English... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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