- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 23:09:28 -0400
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
At 10:48 PM 6/2/00 -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: >Personally, I'd like to see namespaces rolled into the XML spec itself >rather than existing in a separate document. Among other things, that >would enable us to avoid the confusing definition of a Qname, which may or >may not have a qualifier (a different example of something that quacks like >a duck but isn't a duck). We could then just use "name", with perhaps a >"historical note" explaining the previous use of the term Qname for those >who hadn't heard the news. Unless there's considerably more consensus on what a namespace actually is, rather than just how it is implemented, I'd strongly suggest avoiding reopening XML 1.0. In the current situation, I suspect the results might prove poisonous. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com
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