- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:13:43 +0100
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Chris Lilley wrote: > Hello all > > Flickr have an article on what they call 'machine tags'. Or in other > words, sort of using namespaces, while coining a new term to avoid the > gag reflex from the HTMLorati. (But see below) > > http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594497877875/ > So in conclusion - they don't use namespaces at all. But they have a > registry of colon-separated prefixes, which may or may not conflict > with other peoples usage. They don't use URI-disambiguated namespaces. They don't implement the XML Namespaces spec. But it is a namespace of sorts. Albeit a chaotic messy grassroots self-organizing one. What I'd like to see is the ability to define prefixes per photo-stream, rather than per-photo. While you can add "xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/” in as a tag, nobody wants to do that per photo... (Well, I don't :) It's definitely a healthy development though, even if scruffier than some semweb and xml folks would prefer... Dan
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