- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:28:43 +0100 (BST)
- To: simonstl@simonstl.com
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
> Because there is no mechanism at present for alerting processors to > different versions of the namespaces spec, I'd suggest that the W3C start > with deprecation, and only move on to full 'forbidden' status with another > revision of XML. I'd agree with that, but then we've been here before. You then have to say what the parser has to do in the deprecated case, and the only acceptable option would be literal comparison. Anything else would be technically a worse choice, and politically a change from the existing spec, so no better than "forbid" in terms of legacy documents". But can you get that past the people who don't want to use namespaces at all, but just want to abuse xmlns= syntax to point to schema? David
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