[CL] Namespaces in CLIF

[Bill Andersen]

Hey Chris.

On Dec 27, 2007, at 08:42 , Chris Welty wrote:

>
> Bill,
>
> I think namespaces are "in there" in the sense that if you use the  
> XML syntax
> any XML parser should understand them and "do the right thing".
>
> I'm not clear on what you mean other than that.

I think I said CLIF - no XCL allowed.  CLIF names can be URIs, but  
CLIF lacks the following:

* default namespace
* namespace scoping
* namespace abbreviation

Of course XCL, being XML, would have those things.  Pat and I  
discussed ways to get these info CLIF.  One would be to embed the text  
of the appropriate XML syntax unmodified and use a pre-processor to  
recognize and process these.

> Bill Andersen wrote
>> Nope.  Just 'formal' in terms of adding some productions to the
>> grammar of CLIF to handle it.  As for what it might mean, I simply  
>> had
>> equipping CLIF with mechanisms for namespace defaulting, binding, and
>> scoping.  We don't have elements and attributes, but we have other
>> scoping mechanisms in CLIF.
>
> "Handle it"?  Maybe you could give an example?
>
> I think of URIs as the result of a function on <ns,localname>, is it  
> just that
> you want access to the individual parameters there within some theory?

That would be fun, but no...

Happy 2008!

	.bill

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