Re: stepping backward

At 10:39 AM 6/2/00 -0700, Sam Hunting wrote:
>> It is, however, permitted by the XML 1.0 spec, at least in its
>> current incarnation.
>
>Presumably, since it would be "immoral" (in John Cowan's useful
>formulation) to break existing documents, no future incarnation of XML
>will require namespace qualified names?

I'm not sure that will actually be such a problem, because having no
namespace is legitimate in the world described by Namespaces in XML, and
because the version number would likely change were such a drastic move to
be made.



Simon St.Laurent
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Received on Friday, 2 June 2000 13:56:16 UTC