RE: 8. Are prefixes/namespaces allowed?

> 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.

The conventional way to define meanings is in a media type registration / documentation.

Here is a useful naming convention already established by HTML, not to mention
some XML processing instructions:

@href,@src,@type,@hreflang,@rel,@method

These could be reserved by a MicroXML media type registration.

Cheers,
Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@gmail.com] 
> Sent: September 4, 2012 11:21
> To: liam@w3.org
> Cc: John Cowan; public-microxml@w3.org
> Subject: Re: 8. Are prefixes/namespaces allowed?
> 
> >> 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-Quin0
> >> 1.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
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2012 11:45:42 UTC