Re: Default namespaces

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Emmanuel Desmontils <
emmanuel.desmontils@univ-nantes.fr> wrote:

> hi,
>
> "xml:" is the default namespace for MicroXML. Would it be possible to
> include other default namespaces ? I mean, it would be useful to propose
> "rdf:" and "rdfs:" for the semantic web ("owl:" too).
>


I'm not sure what you mean by '"xml:" is the default namespace for
MicroXML.' There really isn't any such thing as a default namespace for
MicroXML. In XML proper as well as in MicroXML it so happens that you do
not have to explicitly declare the XML prefix, but that's a separate matter
altogether from a default namespace.

If you are suggesting that MicroXML should support other prefixes that need
not be declared in any way, I think I can say with some confidence that
there's no chance of that at all ;)

You can express RDF and OWL in the Clark and Cowan drafts of MicroXML just
fine. Just declare all your prefixes on the root element, which is what you
should be doing in full XML, anyway, if you're using it sanely*.

* Of course I refer to both the Joe English definition of "sanity" and the
layman's language definition as well


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