- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:09:41 -0400
- To: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
At 11:41 AM +0100 7/23/02, Martin Gudgin wrote: >Noah, > >I would agree this issue is only worth fixing if we are delayed for other >reasons. > >I would note however that I would vote for making children of Detail >qualified rather than allowing children of Header and Body to be >unqualified. > I would agree with making the children of Detail qualified, and I do think it is significant enough to justify going back to working draft. The existing format is just plain weird. It is significantly confusing to users, especially those who aren't up on every last detail of W3C language law. It makes it hard to write applications that do simple things like find or filter or dispatch all the SOAP elements in a document, since, unlike most other XML applications, this cannot be done based on namespace URI alone. As somebody who has to teach this stuff, this is one of the uglinesses I point out and say, "Yes, I know this makes no sense and is inconsistent and confusing. Unfortunately that's the way it is." Please, please fix this now. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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