Overloaded URIs (was Re: XLink: behavior must go!)

[David Megginson]

WorldNet writes:

 > If someone could explain, I don't understand yet why a reference to
 > such a 'namespace' would be useful, particularly if there is
 > nothing there to access other than the seemingly ephemeral
 > reference itself.

You can uniquely identify names across document types; for example, a
search engine could recognize an HTML <cite> element in many different 
document types, and a rendering engine could have a library of
handlers for well-known element types.


All the best,


David

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