CIF specification: reserved prefixes
Nick Spadaccini nick at cs.uwa.edu.auThu Oct 30 11:00:36 GMT 2003
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Doug du Boulay wrote: > For the purposes of parsing CIF tags, it looks like banning underscores from > prefixes gains you nothing that you couldn't get more reliably and > efficiently by introducing a standard prefix separator such as the ":" > character. And while we are at it call it "CIF namespaces" and point to the excellent solution offered by XML namespaces for implementation details. Then the prefixes don't have to be registered, nor do they "need" (though desirable) to be uniquely different across the world. my $0.02 worth, and now switching my CIF mail filter back on. cheers Nick -------------------------------- Dr N. Spadaccini Head of School School of Computer Science & voice: +(61 8) 9380 3452 Software Engineering fax: +(61 8) 9380 1089 The University of Western Australia email: nick at csse.uwa.edu.au 35 Stirling Highway w3: www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~nick CRAWLEY, Perth, WA 6009 AUSTRALIA CRICOS Provider Code: 00126G
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