[Bug 25098] Clarifications on "legacy reasons" for namespace URI

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25098

--- Comment #2 from Sebastian Müller <sebp.muell.er@gmail.com> ---
Re: barely used namespaced attributes in SVG:

I doubt that the "image" element is barely used in SVG and it requires the
xlink namespace for the reference to the image.
The same holds true for the "use" element. 

At least one of those two is part of every non-trivial SVG file I have seen for
the past years. 
Also I don't see that they are "looking into replacements" for these - at least
the w3c SVG 2.0 working draft still uses these namespaced attributes...

Don't forget that modern, complex, corporate single page web apps will have to
work with XML that is neither HTML, nor SVG and that the concept of namespaced
attributes has been there for *a very long time* and therefore quite a number
of XML schemas make use of it, e.g. SOAP and XAML. 

So unless you want to deprecate XML 1.1 I don't see how you can discourage the
use of namespaced attributes and thus they should not be marked as *legacy*.
Someone is going to use this as an argument to remove it from some proprietary
implementation and that would be bad.

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Received on Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:30:11 UTC