- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:56:11 -0500
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Sam Ruby wrote: > Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, has discussed the following in the > context of the Hypertext Coordination Group (HCG) and at the TPAC, but I > have not seen it discussed here: > > http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/08-quin-balisage-namespaces/ (bcc: RDFa TF) Yes, Liam' proposal is a good one. A number of us have been discussing the "Namespace Definition files" approach offline for a number of months. I remember that Mark Birbeck had also brought the concept up about a year ago in a XHTML+RDFa Task Force telecon. While there are a number of issues to be worked out, I think this is the right direction for the distributed extensibility debate. It provides a solid replacement for xmlns: while requiring authors to know what a namespace is or how to use it. It seems like this approach could be a good compromise and it seems to be in line with requirements put forth by WHATWG, the RDFa TF and HTML WG. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Establishing an Open Digital Media Commerce Standard http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/
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