- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:22:50 +0300
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>, Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jul 29, 2008, at 14:38, Ian Hickson wrote: > Evidence suggests that they cause great author confusion (e.g. [1]). [...] > [1] "As the author of an O'Reilly book on XForms, I can report that > 90% of > the technical questions from readers involve confusion related to > namespaces." > -- http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/papers/verity.html It seems that authors are confused by the freedom to choose the prefix and by the layer of indirection. This might be just a random question: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200502/msg00306.html But someone thought it would merit a Q&A in an XML.com article: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/10/08/qanda.html Looks like micromanaging the prefix was worth a section in .Net documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950785.aspx Seems to cause bugs, too: http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/ticket/179 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=454391&aid=924041&group_id=48863 -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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