Manu wrote: > Does it? If 'country-name' isn't namespaced, then we could get rid of > country and 'name' by itself would have an unambiguous meaning.
I think you're missing the distinction between 'namespace' and 'context', like Tantek suggested. Basically, you're stating the reductio for your own position -- you're basically saying that all adjectives are namespaces, and that's clearly incorrect. > However, if we were to do that in practice, 'name' wouldn't mean > 'country name' anymore... it would be more ambiguous. By being more > ambiguous, we're stating that the prefix that we removed, 'country', > actually does have semantic meaning. *Of course* 'country' has semantic meaning. It's an adjective that provides context for 'name'. But context does not a namespace make... > 'country' is a namespace that gives scope to the following 'name' by > specifying that we are talking about a 'country name' and not a > 'person name'. No, country does that because of its adjective-ness, not its namespace-ness. Ted -- Edward O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem. _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list microformats-new@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new