- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 17:10:02 +0200
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, www-math@w3.org, dev-tech-mathml@lists.mozilla.org, WHAT WG List <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Nov 4, 2006, at 13:07, Elliotte Harold wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, dolphinling wrote: >>>> I'm not saying don't add MathML to HTML. I'm saying don't add >>>> namespace syntax to HTML. > > As I've said elsewhere, I find this viewpoint simply > incomprehensible. Namespaces are ugly, but they're not that ugly or > that problematic. They are also at the core of XML processing. > Throwing out namespaces makes it nearly impossible to process HTML > with the very large and powerful set of XML tools. Note that what you quoted above was not about throwing away namespaces but about not introducing namespace *syntax* to the text/ html serialization. In fact, HTML5 requires UAs to put HTML elements in the XHTML namespace. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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