[Om] name of OMS

Christoph LANGE ch.lange at jacobs-university.de
Fri Aug 1 12:14:18 CEST 2008


Dear David, dear all,

On Friday 01 August 2008 09:04:15 David Carlisle wrote:
> Yes it's best not to "see" the CD prefix on the element names at all,
> just thing of them as a pre-namespaces namespace mechanism (rather like
> the OM prefix on openmath instance elements). If you read it as CD
> Definition then it could be thought to mena definition of a CD, but if
> you read it as CD:Definition then it's the Definition element in the CD
> Vocabulary which is a better reading.

But then, wouldn't OpenMath 3 be a good opportunity to get rid of
old-fashioned namespace replacements?  We've had XML namespaces for almost 10
years now, after all.

Cheers,

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Lange, DERI Galway/Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange
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