- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:42:22 +0100
- To: Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez@apple.com>
- CC: Lukas Mathis <lukas.mathis@numcom.com>, WebDav <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote: > Except that I think attempting to preserve namespace prefixes in > property XML falls in that category. > > Namespace prefixes aren't supposed to be semantically meaningful, and > changing them shouldn't have any more effect on the XML reader than > changing a variable name in code should on a program. What matters is > the data being referred to, not the name of the reference. Wilfredo, it would be helpful if you go through the mailing list archives and re-read the thread. I absolutely do agree that namespace prefixes were not *meant* to be significant, but now they are, because people (incl. the W3C) have started putting them into attribute *values*, such as in XPath or XML Schema. Was that a bad idea? Probably yes. Can we change that? No. Best regards, Julian
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