- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:55:18 -0500
- To: John Boyer <JBoyer@PureEdge.com>
- CC: paul.downey@bt.com, www-tag@w3.org, derhoermi@gmx.net
John Boyer wrote: > You are confusing the bag with the stuff in the bag > (no negative connotation intended). > Your entire premise seems to be based on an article of faith that collections cannot change. While this position is logically self-consistent, I find nothing inconsistent in the alternate position that collections can change. Furthermore, I think allowing mutable collections of names is more practically useful for the development of the Web and other XML-based technologies. In your example, I see no fundamental reason why we should consider the namespace URI to refer to the stuff in the bag rather than the bag itself, or vice versa. Pick whichever interpretation is most useful. more than half a decade's experience had pretty well come down on the side that it is very problematic to use namespace URIs as a version control mechanism, so we don't do that. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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