- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:22:23 -0400
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- CC: "Bassetti, Ann" <ann.bassetti@boeing.com>, public-xml-id@w3.org, "Bugbee, Larry" <larry.bugbee@boeing.com>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, "Reid, Travis S" <travis.s.reid@boeing.com>, "Gerstmann, Jerry P" <jerry.p.gerstmann@boeing.com>, "Meadows, Joe" <joe.meadows@nobs.ca.boeing.com>
Chris Lilley wrote: > EH> The only reason to use xml:id is an adamant belief that all names should > EH> have colons in them. Namespaces have long since been recognized as an > EH> ungodly mess and an ugly kludge. It's well past time we stopped > EH> enforcing that kludge on every new spec despite very good reasons to go > EH> down a different path. > > Sure, if you don't mind a few years of churn and if you have something > better. I did say "new spec". There's no churn here. xmlid is something better. xml:id looks more broken every day. Let's accept it and move on. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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