- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:44:57 -0400
- To: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > The inference you are drawing is unwarranted: there is no guarantee > that the name-space solution eventually adopted for XML will use > colons in names. I'm not inferring it. I'm inferring that others will infer it. :) My concern is that all future namespace research will start from: "What's a good way to use that colon?" It's like if my wife sets aside a room in the house and says its the children's room -- if we ever have children. The room will become a vacuum waiting to be filled! I can see your problem of the in- and out-crowd . I suppose I would prefer if the : were merely reserved for "experimentation" (into whatever). I might use it to represent OOP inheritance hierarchies. We could also bite the bullet and reserve "::" and let 'namechar:namechar' be used (for experimentation or whatever). That would have the benefit of not breaking the experiments when the final solution is rolled out. Paul Prescod
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