- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:24:49 +0300
On Aug 28, 2008, at 12:18, Julian Reschke wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Aug 27, 2008, at 16:33, Smylers wrote: >>> So that is one disadvantage of URIs: they are long. In fact they >>> are so >>> long that people have gone to the bother of inventing additional >>> syntax >>> to avoid having to write them out. >> Moreover, having to look up the URIs is a major pain when writing >> software that processes namespaced XML. I can remember "xhtml", >> "xlink" or "svg", but I can't remember the namespace URIs. What >> random year do they contain? Is there a slash in the end? > > I always use copy & paste. So I really don't care a lot. I always copy & paste, too. That's my point. Namespace waste my time almost every day. I don't need to copy and paste when I write "href" or "p". Those I can memorize with confidence that I memorize them right. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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