Re: 8. Are prefixes/namespaces allowed?

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>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.
>
> -1 to anything external to the document affecting its content.
>

Hang on.  Does that really mean you oppose transformation stages in an XML
toolchain?  If not, can you clarify?


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