- From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 16:21:25 +0100
- To: liam@w3.org
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, public-microxml@w3.org
>> 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. -1 to anything external to the document affecting its content. I don't believe namespaces are needed (if they really are use XML) and if disambiguation is needed in microxml then people will find a way... naming conventions will emerge. -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com
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