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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Tim Bray wrote: > At 08:44 PM 12/29/99 -0500, Joe Lapp wrote: > >So I'm thinking that we need a *standard* way to organize namespaces > >hierarchically, and that we need one before namespace usage is so > >widespread that we absolutely have to provide regex support. > > Sounds like a good idea. How about a proposal? Shorter is better. I don't remember where, but I remember reading an example where a URL was given as the xmlns URI -- pointing to an XmlSchema; thus, not only uniquely defining the namespace, but also identifying the element definitions in that namespace. So, this is how I had seen namespaces being powerful, as a pointer to meta-data. That being said, I had never expected a set of namespaces to have value by organizing them hierarchially... so I'm wondering exactly what value a hierarchy of namespaces would provide? Would it be a sequence of ever-so-much-more-specific schemas? Where the most specific definition is the binding one? I can't think of any other reasons why I'd have more than one namespace for a given "domain", let alone a hierarchically organized set. What am I missing? Thanks! Clark 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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