- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 14:28:49 -0700
- To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>, www-tag@w3.org
"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > > It worked well enough for markup until > namespaces were introduced. XML has many references to web architecture embedded in it. Most are much more inconvenient for offline use than namespaces. Nobody seems to mind. We SGML-ers swore that requiring system identifiers would make XML unusable off the Web. We were wrong. > ... Maybe the > problem is namespaces and then perhaps > the only problem is insisting that to > be a namespace it must be dereferenceable. There is essentially no circumstance where it is difficult to make namespaces dereferencable and if there were such a circumstance it would be handled by the distinction between SHOULD and MUST. There is a reason that there is a distinction. Paul Prescod
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