Do xml-like namespaces make sense for Reiser4? (re: metas thread)

["John D. Heintz" <jheintz@pobox.com>]

Hi all,

I work with XML quite a lot in my job and deal with XML namespaces 
often. While I think they have some problems in the XML world (poor 
integration with XML InfoSet) they might be useful for Reiser4 and they 
seem to play well with the Set Theoretic underlying models (as far as I 
can tell :).

Here's what I'm thinking:
Instead of `cat foo.txt/metas/uid`
it would be `cat foo.txt/reiser4:metas/uid` or perhaps `cat 
foo.txt/reiser4:uid`.

Here the "reiser4" shorthand would map to "http://www.namesys.com/v4" or 
whatever Hans and team decided.

The reiser4 namespace could be hardcoded or compiled in  and exposed via 
`cat /proc/fs/reiser4/namespace`.

Other namespaces could be added to files/directories and I'd assume 
something like:
`cat foo.txt/reiser4:namespaces` would list all the namespaces available 
for a particular file.
Something like:
reiser4    http://www.namesys.com/v4
streams   http://www.evil-empire.com/streams
snapcm   http://www.snapcm.com/snapcm

John D. Heintz

ps - SnapCM is the name of a versioned linking model that I developed 
some time ago and hope one day to build a plugin for Reiser4. I'm being 
optimistic listing it in the available namespaces. ;-)