Re: SVG and MathML in text/html

On Mar 15, 2008, at 20:37, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> Doug Schepers wrote:
>>> so a new edition of XLink could, in theory, define an additional
>>> "human-friendly" namespace name, like "http://w3.org/xlink".
>> This would be a huge step in usability for all the W3C specs.
>> Heck, it could even be: "w3c:xlink", right?  And "w3c:xhtml",  
>> "wc3:svg", etc. As an occasional XML author, that would save me  
>> from having to ...
>
> That would require either a change in the Namespace spec, or  
> registration of "w3c" as URI scheme.


Either of those would be required to make it blessed spec-wise. To  
actually make it *work*, changes to a vast number of pieces of  
*software* would be needed.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Saturday, 15 March 2008 19:12:02 UTC