Re: Update on namespaces

On Jun 17,  4:52pm, Tim Bray wrote:
> Subject: Re: Update on namespaces
> The solutions proposed fall into three categories:
>
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> 2. Use Architectural Forms (maybe just calling them reserved attributes)
>
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> 3. Use an all-instance syntax
>
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> For now, I lean to #3, with AF's a fallback position if there's a really
> good reason for not doing #3.  Andrew Layman and have agreed to cook
> up a formal proposal along these lines, which will be forthcoming.
>
>-- End of excerpt from Tim Bray

Occam's razor would indicate going with #2, since we need add nothing.  #3 is
certainly cool syntactic sugar, but it opens the door to messing with the
structure of the GI.  I've also suggested a different extension for error
recovery.

The next step will be defining regular expressions for parsing the GI to
determine which extensions are being used.  I don't say  that's good or bad,
but I suggest it will now be inevitable.

Matthew Fuchs
matt@wdi.disney.com

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Received on Wednesday, 18 June 1997 12:26:43 UTC