Re: On id and name attributes

• From: Daniel Hiester <alatus@earthlink.net>
• Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:07:18 -0700
• To: "www-html" <www-html@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <000d01c10ee2$f0d87580$252db3d1@sol>

Piers Wiliams wrote:
"Lets not get confused with different usage of the word namespace, nor
_whatever_ namespace the FORM is in (HTML, yes, but that's not the point)."

Which inspires me to ask: Does anyone knowo why they decided to name XML
Namespaces the way they did? Isn't that kind of like creating a new database
file format, and giving it an extension of .bmp?

Daniel

Received on Tuesday, 17 July 2001 12:59:40 UTC