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• Subject: Re: What are the characteristics of a good type system for XML?
• From: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 20:04:24 +0000
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"Emmanuil Batsis (Manos)" <mbatsis@n...> wrote:
| Arjun Ray wrote:

|> I think the idiotic Platonist dogma of "universal names" is the root of
|> all evil in the XML world.
| 
| Hmmm. IMHO the actual problems related to universal names in XML (from 
| IDs to URIs to QNames) is the perception of what their universe is and 
| the absence of formal mapping mechanisms between them.

Mappings, formal or no, with absurdities is a waste of time.  I've come
across many thoroughly bogus notions in my time, but to date, "universal
names" (for elements and attributes, of all things) still takes the cake.

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