- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:23:11 +0000
- To: "Norm Tovey-Walsh" <norm@saxonica.com>
- Cc: public-ixml@w3.org
> As I said, I’m not a fan of conflating comment markup with pragma
> markup. We have the freedom to do better.
Pragmas are machine-readable comments. Delete them, and nothing changes.
If we don't agree on that, then I think we have to start anew with a requirements analysis, because that means we're designing something that we haven't yet agreed on the purpose of (which I'm beginning to suspect).
> > {*ixml=http://invisiblexml.org/ixml This is a pragma}
> …
> > {*ixml this is a later pragma to the same processor}
>
> Uhm. That feels *a whole lot* like sneaking namespaces into the spec,
> except uglier, harder to use, and more error prone.
It's no more namespaces than than the use of URIs in RDF is. If we agree that URIs are the way to unambiguously identify things without clashes, then we should use them. I included the short name, because Michael was asking for brevity, but if you don't like them, we can delete that part and just use the URI.
Steven
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