- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:56:48 -0400
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
At 10:34 AM -0400 6/28/04, Norman Walsh wrote: >It follows that there are significant tradeoffs to be considered when >deciding on a namespace change policy. If your existing vocabulary has >no extensibility points (if it does not allow elements or attributes >>From foreign namespaces or have a mechanism for dealing with >unrecognized names from the same namespace), it may be absolutely >necessary to change the namespace name. This is an issue for processing software, not for the XML vocabulary itself. No XML vocabulary needs a mechanism for dealing with unrecognized names. The problem would only be in software that reads the vocabulary. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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