- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:31:25 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com>, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.org>
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > ... > That is true. > > Is it ok that in an XML document, the API would give different answers > than the built-in XML namespace mechanism? Would it be acceptable to > encourage consumers to process XML content based on "effective namespace > URI" instead of based on actual Namespaces in XML processing? > ... I would hope that that API gave the same answers for XML documents, and would only differ in HTML. > I suggest that if we introduce a mechanism with different behavior than > either Namespaces in XML or IE's HTML namespaces, but usable in the same > document at the same time, then it should probably use a different > syntax than Namespaces in XML. > ... If Microsoft is willing to *change* their namespace support in HTML, and nobody else is implementing it, then I don't see why a new syntax would be needed. > ... BR, Julian
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