- From: Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:43:06 +0100
Hello Ian Ian Hickson wrote: > I'm definitely against any in-page indirection mechanism, because we have > seen with XML Namespaces (and with RDFa) that prefixes are simply a huge > source of problems. > They are indeed, XML namespaces fixed one problem calling different things by the same name but they created another problem of calling the same thing by different names, Prefixes are not themselves bad, misunderstood or any kind of indirection mechanism, they are just short hand urls, they are actually quite intuitive if used correctly. RDFa Is currently trying to solve its problems with xmlns, is just a minor design flaw, xmlns is used for structure not content and they realize that issue. Best wishes -- Martin McEvoy http://weborganics.co.uk/
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