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Simon St.Laurent wrote,
> This is an area that Namespaces in XML pretty plainly avoided, but it
> may be an area that we need to consider more and more as we get
> deeper into documents which mix and match namespaces on terms which
> aren't always clearly defined in advance.
Surely this isn't specifically a namespace issue? Wouldn't precisely the
same set of processing options arise with,
<a_container>
<b_container>
<a_leaf />
<a_branch>
<a_leaf />
</a_branch>
<a_leaf />
</b_container>
</a_container>
IMO the problem is how to process a document instance given only partial
knowledge of the intended document type and/or semantics. I can't think
of any particularly good reason why there should be a generic solution
for that.
Cheers,
Miles
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