#1 Put out a notice officially recognizing the namespace inconsistencies amoung the spec and the various implementations. Enumerating each and every issue. Examples include (a) uri reference absolute/relative inconsistencies (b) per-element-partition inconsistency (c) any others? #2 Specify "conservative" interpretations of each of the issues; ie, a core position which can be counted on to work in the future. Ex: (a) only use absolute URIs in namespaces, processes use character-by-character comparision. (b) Do not rely on a per-element distinction for un-prefixed attributes. #3 Form an emergency committee to re-write the XML Namespace spec; rolling in the xml:base specification. Re-issue an updated namespec specification and patches to XPath/etc. as needed. Don't worry about breaking previous documents or code... just get it right. #4 Release the above changes with XML 1.1 ... with <?xml version="1.1" ?> Oh fun. ClarkReceived on Friday, 19 May 2000 13:49:57 UTC
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