- From: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 15:25:24 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
/ noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com was heard to say:
| Norm Walsh writes:
|
|> For XML-based
|> [quoting Tim Bray...NRM]
|> | languages, designers in general SHOULD NOT embed versioning
|> | information in namespace names." -Tim
|
|> Sounds like good practice to me :-)
[... lots of intelligent, thoughtful commentary elided ...]
| So my suggestion is: either decide that this is the time to choose a
| group to think seriously though at least some of the versioning issues, or
| skip the advice on namespaces, at least for now. Many thanks.
I added the smiley because I didn't think it was really something that
we'd reach any sort of consensus on for the reasons you outlined. It's
too big and perilous a swamp to wade into casually.
Be seeing you,
norm
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| world of Purpose within.--W. H. Auden
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