Many of the operations defined on a naming context take names as
parameters. Names have structure. A name is an ordered sequence of
components.
A name with a single component is called a simple name; a name with
multiple components is called a compound name. Each component except
the last is used to name a context; the last component denotes the
bound object.
A name component consists of two attributes: the identifier
attribute and the kind attribute. Both the identifier attribute and the
kind attribute are represented as IDL strings. The kind attribute adds
descriptive power to names in a syntax-independent way. Examples of the
value of the kind attribute include c_source, object_code, executable,
postscript, or " ".
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