- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:01:56 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Martijn <martijn.martijn@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Martijn wrote: > > why does sXBL have it's own namespace? > Since it's only purpose seems to be that it is used in SVG only, you > could just as easily remove the whole namespace stuff, I guess. As Jon noted, this is to allow the same language to be used in non-SVG contexts in the future. If you look at the sXBL spec carefully, you'll notice it is written in such a way that the only reason that sXBL can only be used with SVG is because it says so. There's nothing SVG-specific really about sXBL, the processing model, et al, are already written in a namespace-neutral manner that could work for any markup. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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