- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 08:32:50 +1100
- To: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
- Cc: Glen <glen.84@gmail.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com> wrote: > Tab, > > I spend the vast majority of my time anymore in RDF-land, where namespaces > actually make sense (I'm not going to argue on the XML use of namespaces - > they are, agreed, ugly and complex). I know that when I've been at Balisage > or any of the W3 confabs, the issue of namespaces ex-XML has been hotly > debated, and many, many potential solutions proposed. Regardless, I do think > that there is a very real need for namespaces in the general sense, if only > as a way of being able to assert conceptual domain scope and to avoid > collisions (<div> is the prototypical example here). Yes, as I've said, I don't disagree that we'll want a namespacing mechanism at some point. It's just not needed at the moment, and we can safely introduce it in the future. ~TJ
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