Date:         Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:43:06 -0500
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From:         "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      namespaces (Re: [MODS] preparation for a new MADS draft)
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From: "Bruce D'Arcus" <[log in to unmask]>
>>  Would this be a good thing, for MODS and
>> MADS to have the same namespace?

>...it seems to make some sense that
>they'd be in the same namespace.  It does seem a little silly to have
><mods:title> and <mads:title> when they refer to the same thing.

Just to be clear, even if mods and mads have different namespaces, there
wouldn't  be both a  <mods:title> and <mads:title> unless mods and mads
definitions' of title differed.  If it is a common definition then that
definition would occur in one or the other (or a third, for a common type
library) and both would reference it from that  namespace.

Conversely, if mods and mads have the same namespace but different
definitions of title then we'd have to have different title element names,
e.g. <modsTitle> and <madsTitle>.

--Ray