- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 10:12:27 -0700
- To: w3c-xml-schema-wg@w3.org
- Cc: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, xml-editor@w3.org, w3c-xml-schema-wg@w3.org
At 06:00 PM 5/31/99 +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >Do you see how that makes life difficult for XML Schema (it's from me >with my Schema hat on that this question really comes from)? Actually, it occurs to me that namespace-sensitive applications are going to operate (e.g. using the DOM) on the URI rather than the prefix anyhow. So I suspect that foo:space, where foo points at the xml URI, will probably work. But for *interchange* the letter of the law requires using "xml:". Andrew Layman actually suggested, quite reasonably I thought, that we *forbid* using any prefix but "xml" for this namespace. Anyhow, the problem goes away assuming that namespaces and XML 1.0 ever get integrated as is the declared intent. -Tim
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