At 09:47 AM 5/18/00 -0400, keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: >Our first goal _must_ be to make Namespaces work. That's the question on >the table. I wish it were that simple - it seems that multiple agendas involving namespace usage are on the table simultaneously, that those agendas are throughly intertwined. >Nobody has yet proposed a way to reliably process an absolutized relative >name that will support the Namespace spec's primary goal: unambiguous >recognition of which elements and attributes belong to a particular >namespace. It's not clear that such a creature exists, though I'd be happy to find one. The permutations I've done all seem to result in potential interoperability issues. 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.comReceived on Thursday, 18 May 2000 09:53:46 UTC
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