Re: Next steps for the ARIA syntax discussion

On May 15, 2008, at 17:21, Lisa Seeman wrote:

> Losing the  namespaces architectures seems to brake a lot of the  
> original
> aim of what we set out to do.

Note that the colon proposal that the TAG is putting forward requires  
doing dispatching in a way that is not proper per Namespaces.

The hyphenated way, on the other hand, does not require breaking  
Namespace-wise correct dispatch. It just doesn't use all the  
facilities available and leaves Namespaces latent without requiring a  
breaking their processing.

> Further it is the dash approach that is new - first available drafts  
> and
> implementations were using the colon approach.

That was the situation in September. Now the situation is not using  
anything but the hyphen would be an approach requiring change.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Friday, 16 May 2008 15:32:23 UTC