- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:27:50 +0100
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, public-xml-id@w3.org
[removing Core -- no reason to clutter mailboxes]
Having maintained and developed a large Java XML API for some years, I
agree that the xml namespace and prefix require special casing. That
special casing took work. That work is done. The marginal cost of
supporting xml:id given that the work has been done is tiny.
The conceptual overhead of explaining that global attributes are
namespace-prefixed, except when they're spelled 'x m l i d', seems to
me _much_ more costly when averaged over all likely users, than the
cost of getting xml: right when averaged over all developers.
I don't think the case for changing this holds up.
ht
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