At 04:51 PM 5/29/2003 +0200, james anderson wrote:
>"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> >
> > At 12:02 AM 5/29/2003 -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
> > >Don't be silly. Why would you want names that are unique on a wide scale
> > >if you weren't going to be combining vocabularies?
> >
> > That's not a silly question.
> >
> > I use namespace identifiers in most of my processing, even when I don't
> > plan to be combining vocabularies in single documents. It means I can
> > create pipelines which handle multiple vocabularies correctly, for
> > instance, even when using tools that have long since forgotten that DOCTYPE
> > exists.
>
>is this less a vocabulary combination because it is temporal reather than
>lexical?
Yes, because very frequently no combination occurs at all.
