From: "David Carlisle" <>
> > I am of the opinion that if the namespace name does not change, then
> > the semantics of an XML-based markup language should not change
> > either.
>
> Take a look at the namespace spec.
> Namespaces are not about semantics they are about names.
Well, they really are about modularity which cannot really get too far from
ideas of semantics.
> A language version is usually undersood to share some named constructs
> with other versions of the same language. If it doesn't then it is not a
> new version, it is a new language.
A namespace is not a language, nor does it define a language. A schema
specifies (parts of) the language.
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
