- From: Urs Holzer <urs@andonyar.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:23:25 +0200
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: Christoph LANGE <ch.lange@jacobs-university.de>, "www-math@w3.org" <www-math@w3.org>
David Carlisle wrote: > On 12/07/2010 16:41, Urs Holzer wrote: > [...] > > It is widely accepted that just chosing prefixes carefully in XML > > without using URIs to identify the namespaces is not enough in > > practice. > > widely but not universally, note for example the current html5 > proposals more or less completely reject the namespace/uri extension > mechanisms in favour of centralised name registries. Not that I > necessarily agree with that, just observing that (especially in a > web context) using URIs as naming systems does not always help > adoption. I don't think they really do. After all, they provide an XML encoding for HTML 5. I also think MathML shouldn't do either. I believe that such decisions do not belong into the language itself, they should be handled outside of it. Greetings Urs
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