Re: MicroXML design goals

On 8/15/2012 2:35 AM, Dave Pawson wrote:
> On 14 August 2012 16:31, John Cowan<cowan@mercury.ccil.org>  wrote:
>> Uche Ogbuji scripsit:
>>
>>> But you're just saying go back to XML 1.0, where an attribute has a name,
>>> and that name can include a colon, and there's nothing special in the data
>>> model about a name with a colon (except that "xml:" is reserved).
>> That is what my draft says also.
>>
>>> I'd have to think about this, and in particular the consequence of having
>>> MicroXML documents not XMLNS compatible. You're right that we have not set
>>> XMLNS compat as a goal, but I admit that considering such a large break
>>> does give me pause.
>> So it should; let us all think hard about this.
>
> Micro == simpler? xmlns isn't simple (see the various lists for proof of this).
>
> for me, No to xmlns compatibility.
>
I call this position the "Freedom from Namespace Declaration," and I 
subscribe to it.

-Mike

Received on Friday, 17 August 2012 14:27:53 UTC