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• Subject: Re: Schema Namespace name, schemaLocation, and Schema V ersioning
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:20:35 +1000
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From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>

 > > I am of the opinion that if the namespace name does not change, then
> > the semantics of an XML-based markup language  should not change
> > either. 
> 
> Take a look at the namespace spec.
> Namespaces are not about semantics they are about names.

Well, they really are about modularity which cannot really get too far from
ideas of semantics.
 
> A language version is usually undersood to share some named constructs
> with other versions of the same language. If it doesn't then it is not a
> new version, it is a new language.

A namespace is not a language, nor does it define a language. A schema
specifies (parts of) the language.  
  
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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