- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:04:47 -0400
- To: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: michaelm@netsol.com, xml-uri@w3.org
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:28:49AM +0100, David Carlisle wrote: > > Sounds fine to me. It just means that I'll wait for 2.0 before I > > implement anything using XML Namespaces. I don't mean that to be facetious. > > Its just that, since I assumed (which was my fault) that namespace names > > were URIs in all respects, I now consider this version to be broken for > > my purposes... > > As I suspected, you haven't been using namespaces at all. > Which is why you can be so casual about scrapping two years worth of > XML development. Very true... > What _are_ the purposes for which you want to use XML namespaces? The semantic web infrastructure that Tim has been talking about for a while now... It mostly depends on RDF but so far RDF has a fairly tight relationship with XML (not due to the design but due to market realities)... I'm becoming more comfortable with creating a new attribute that does identify the namespace in the URI sense of identification. -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@netsol.com
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