Re: [docbook] namespace markup

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Peter Ring wrote:

> In short: an XML namespace name looks a lot like an URI, and an XML
> namespace declaration look a lot like assigning a value to an
> attribute. But you cannot really infer much about the semantics of
> XML namespaces from that. An XML namespace name is not a type of URI.

While I not disagree with you, I think that this reasoning is quite sort
of mental gymnastic.

If you have namespace in your document you don't see abstract concept of
namespace you see URI, and best what you can do is to markup it as a URI
and say that this particular URI is used as namespace name.

This is also suggested in TDG5:

http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/uri.html

URI are simply used for too many things nowadays and it is unreasonable
to have separate element name for each such usage.

				Jirka

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