Path based Conceptual Binding

To reference a concept it's necessary to:

a. identify the ConceptualSchema it belongs to

• • --> schema namespace
• identifiy the concept(element) within that schema
  • --> exact xpath to just 1 element

So a reference to any concept could look like this:

ConceptualBindingProposalOne>

or for attributes:

ConceptualBindingProposalOne>

Where "ns" is a namespace prefix previously declared like: xmlns:ns="http://www.tdwg.org/someschema"

Note: Another alternative for referencing schemas could be to use the xml ID & IDREF mechanism to refer via IDREF to a list of schema namespaces defined somewhere with their xml IDs.