- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:10:45 -0400
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 21:33 -0400, John Cowan wrote: > 8. Are prefixes/namespaces allowed? The consensus [sighs, > sucks teeth] seems to be no: no colons in names, a ban on "xmlns" > attributes, no namespaces. The Automatic XML Namespaces proposal > <http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol3/print/Quin01/BalisageVol3-Quin01.html> > provides a method external to the document of implying namespaces on > prefix-free documents. MicroAF would allow translation of prefix-free > attributes to the corresponding prefixed attributes, as would XSLT. I'd be happy to see Automatic/Unobtrusive Namespaces taken up (I should reinstate the blog posting), but that would mean allowing namespaces in the data model I think. More discussion needed (sorry). -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml XML Book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1118162137/liamquinxml
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