Re: ISSUE-41/ACTION-97 decentralized-extensibility

On Oct 3, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:

>
> Statements that I feel people can all agree to:
>
> 1) People (as in users and customers) have, do, and will continue to  
> use "xmlns:" syntax in HTML, and have, do, and will continue to  
> build tools that solve their perceived use cases based on this syntax.

What's our goal for what we're calling  "Decentralized extensibility"?  
Is it to provide *any* form of extensibility that doesn't require  
centralized coordination? Or is it to provide a syntax that uses  
prefixes, colons as a separator, indirect prefix binding, URIs as  
namespace identifiers, and xmlns attributes to declare prefixes?

I get the sense that, for many people, only a solution that looks like  
Namespaces in XML will satisfy.

If that is indeed the case, should we rename this issue from  
"Decentralized extensibility" to "XML-style namespace syntax"?

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Saturday, 3 October 2009 13:08:58 UTC