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Re: ATTN: Please comment on XHTML (before it's too late)

• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:11:17 -0400 (EDT)

Mark Baker writes:

 > >Fortunately, XML isn't source code (or compiled code), so we don't
 > >have the same problem -- I was using that example only to demonstrate
 > >that once there's software deployed that recognizes a certain set of
 > >XHTML Namespaces (preferably a set with one member), it will be very
 > >difficult to introduce any new Namespaces.
 > 
 > Which begs the question, when is it proper/suitable/desirable/"right" to
 > create a new namespace?

The same time you'd create a new Java package, or change a company's
domain name -- i.e. when it's no longer identifiable as the same
thing.  If the HTML WG decides that <a> should mean 'answer' rather
than 'anchor', they should create a new Namespace; until then, leave
it be.


All the best,


David

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