Re: How namespace names might be used

Dan Connolly and David Carlisle were having an exchange a few days ago 
which seemed to grind to a halt with...

At 01:21 14/06/00 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
 > Dan Connolly wrote:

> > put a schema for MathML at
> > http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML

   (snip)

> > (one that integrates MathML
> > into XHTML by saying, e.g. that <mathml> can be used as
> > an HTML block element),
>
>
> > This seems straightforward; am I misunderstanding your question?
>
>XHTML Basic? XHTML 1.1? There was a reason for that previous massive
>row over "three namespaces for html" to allow multiple schema for the
>html namespace.

I don't think I missed an answer, but I'd really like to hear what Dan 
Connolly sees as the resolution of this sort of problem.  It seems to get 
to the heart of the question of whether a namespace is or is not a 
"language".  Can I encourage him (or someone else sharing his vision) to 
respond?
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Cheers,
John

Received on Friday, 16 June 2000 05:46:24 UTC