What are traditional namespaces used for?
Perhaps the most common (computer science) use of traditional namespaces is to provide a container for a set of identifiers. For example, traditional namespaces are used to contain the names (identifiers) of element types in an XML document, the names of class variables in a Java class, and the names of tables in a relational database. Traditional namespaces are useful in this regard because of their requirement that each name in the namespace be unique. Thus, when a new name (identifier) is added to the namespace, the uniqueness of the identifier can be verified by checking that the name does not already exist in the namespace. (Note that just because a set of objects draws its names from some traditional namespace does not mean that those names uniquely identify the objects. For example, two different people can share the same name, as can two different element nodes in a DOM tree, which use element type names as their names. For the names in a traditional namespace to uniquely ident
Perhaps the most common (computer science) use of traditional namespaces is to provide a container for a set of identifiers. For example, traditional namespaces are used to contain the names (identifiers) of element types in an XML document, the names of class variables in a Java class, and the names of tables in a relational database. Traditional namespaces are useful in this regard because of their requirement that each name in the namespace be unique. Thus, when a new name (identifier) is added to the namespace, the uniqueness of the identifier can be verified by checking that the name does not already exist in the namespace. (Note that just because a set of objects draws its names from some traditional namespace does not mean that those names uniquely identify the objects. For example, two different people can share the same name, as can two different element nodes in a DOM tree, which use element type names as their names. For the names in a traditional namespace to uniquely ident
