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.
The vocabulary-combination issue seems to have driven the scoping issues
and made for a lot of never-ending conversations. While I've written code
that now deals with the scoping, it's still vastly complicating, and only
rarely useful - I have a hard time seeing that as having hit an 80/20.
