- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 18:42:47 -0400
- To: <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 06:35 PM 5/20/00 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >No, if it had meant to say "strings" is should have said "strings". > >If it had meant that associating a schema wiht a namespace was harmful >then it should have said so, not simply that it was not a goal of the >namespace spec. From the many discussions and battles that have followed the namespaces spec, it seems pretty clear that _Namespaces in XML_ was in a large part compromise, and that making such statements in the spec was simply not possible. >The problem with weasle words is that they get you though the logjam, get a >spec >out by allowing anyone to charitably read ito the spec something they are >content with. >It is not a sound inventment. Agreed. But sometimes that's what happens with unstoppable forces and immovable objects, and the rest of us have to live with it. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com
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