- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 23:42:34 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
At 10:56 AM 1/7/97, Terry Allen wrote: >Jon writes: >[ ... ] >| | Except for the name space pollution. I'll suggest that as XML >| | is already into application-specific PIs, it could use a PI here, too. >| >| I don't see the default interpretation of alink as name space >| pollution, because any user who cares about such things would know >| enough to override the default interpretation. > >It's one more special case to explain to users: "You can name your >elements anything you like, but watch out for 'alink'." Exactly! While I like the idea of defaulting tags (because it will appeal to Joe and Jane HTML) I can't stomach the namespace pollution. It's more complicated to describe, and it's the kind of thing that, if you ever forget it, and use a tagname like alink, it will bite you. If you're a conscientious sort, and use DTDs like you should, you might even miss the problem altogether, since it will only fail in the absence of a DTD that does _not_ declare alink as the AF. And if you think that last sentence is confusing, parse it carefully, and observer that all those negations are necessary. This seems like a gotcha that is just waiting to waste people's time. -- David I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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