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"Roger L. Costello" wrote: > > > One simple solution is that when you create Chameleon components assign > them a global unique id (a GUID). The XML Schema spec allows you to add > an attribute, id, to all element, attribute, complexType, and simpleType > components. This id attribute can be used by a tool to "locate" a > Chameleon component, regardless of what "face" (namespace) it currently > wears. That is, the tool opens up an instance document using DOM, and > the DOM API will provide the tool access to the id value for all > components in the instance document. > Could one (should one?) generalise this to suggest a convention whereby we use IDs for syntactic re-use and namespaces for semantic re-use? It has a certain appeal - namespaces carrying more obvious semantic information than GUIDs... Francis. - Francis Norton. why not?
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