Re: [Yaml-core] YAML 1.1 Status and Plans

[Sean O'D. <se...@ce...>]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 10:51, Clark C. Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:14:17AM -0700, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> | Okay, I now understand how they're expressed, but isn't
> | "clarkevans.com,2002" still the namespace and "bing/wibble one" an
> | identifier under that namespace?
>
> it is the taggingEntity of the tagURI, but if you used another
> URI, it would not be so clear

That's why I think of them as namespaces: because it might not always be a 
taguri, so it might not always be the name of the tagging entity.  I just 
think of it as "namespace" because it's a string and everything is wrapped by 
it.

> | I realize !one and !two are prefixes that will cook up the same fully
> | qualified identifier, so they can't be re-emitted precisely as originally
> | presented.  I understand why that shouldn't be allowed.
>
> Cool.  That's all.  But when you say namespace, it really has
> a set of implications that the space and localpart remain
> distinctly identifiable. ;)

Isn't the space distinctly identifiable?

 Sean O'Dell