- From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 04:17:20 +1000
- To: <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
> From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> > I'd be very sorry if : were NOT a namestart character. On my account, > being able to say :foo to get the 'foo' from the document namespace is > of some importance. But that begs the question of the existance of namespaces. XML-lang, as deliverable in July, will not have namespaces. So we should avoid trouble and prevent incompatible namespace dialects emerging. If the IG and WG8 come up with a good system that requires it, then ":" can be moved up to be a namestart character, but for now all we need, I think, is the simplest of naming conventions "::" to keep names of exportable elements in DTDs unique. Rick Jelliffe
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