Re: Why bound prefixes are an anti-pattern in language design

Ian,

Is this the reason *why* xmlns prefixes are not supported in HTML 5....

".... The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism to resolve 
namespace prefixes. For all of these reasons, use of such entities and 
entity references should be avoided or used with extreme care. A future 
Level of the DOM may include some additional support for handling these."

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/core.html#Namespaces-Considerations

Thanks

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Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/

Received on Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:16:39 UTC