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RE: power uses of XML vs. simple uses of XML
- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@...>
- To: 'XML-Dev Mailing list' <xml-dev@...>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:47:54 -0400
> Gavin wrote:
>
> "Most applications are not structured for arbitrary embedding."
>
> Absolutely right, but most documents ARE written to be processed by many
> applications. Documents that use namespaces provide a single,
> simple way for all applications to pick out exactly what they are
> to process.
How do I tell your application how to process my namespace
(ie. bind the semantics)? Name disambiguation is a trivial problem.
Using disambiguated names is not.
> Using your approach every application has to have its
> own little bit of AI.
Or a stylesheet, or some other such mechanism.
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