- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:01:38 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > > > What's the use case? [for binding 'xml' to the XML namespace > > automatically] This seems like it would complicate the spec and the > > implementations, as well as make full tutorials slightly more > > complicated, without any real benefit to the end user. When would you > > ever use this namespace in CSS? > > I have no idea I am very reluctant for us to add features without good use cases, especially when they make things more complicated. > if namespaces are useful in selectors, then I need this namespace if I > ever want to select the attributes in the xml namespace. Should you ever want to do that, you can bind the namespace manually. I can't see any likely use case for using the XML namespace in selectors, though, personally. I could see an argument for prebinding the 'html' prefix, since that would be very commonly used, although I don't think even that would outweigh the resulting possible confusion. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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