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• Subject: Re: Where have the element types gone?
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 13:33:44 -0500
• In-reply-to: <3C137C43.5010603@d...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Sunday 09 December 2001 09:59 am, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> >>2) After we had namespaces, and you chose to use them, you made an
> >>assumption about the data type of the element based on its name, which
> >>was "guaranteed" to be universal.
> >
> > The names cannot be "guaranteed" to be unique... especially over time.
>
> Fair enough, but it's the same for the names of datatypes :) !

True, but the probability of change is greater in one case than the other. 
Also, at the  end of the day, it is the application that really determines 
what  *any* name means. 

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