Re: 8. Are prefixes/namespaces allowed?

> Lurking in on these conversations, it seems to me that the group is in
> danger of deciding to include a feature if there is evidence of existing XML
> users who use it.

I think we've been doing ok so far at rejecting virtually every feature :)

> The inevitable consequence of that, I fear, would be that
> the specification will be such a large subset of XML that it serves no
> useful purpose. A better criterion might be to include a feature only if
> there is no alternative practical way of meeting the same requirement.

Agreed, "mixed content and nothing else".


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Andrew Welch
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Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2012 08:41:07 UTC