• From: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@e...>
• To: "'XML-Dev Mailing list'" <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:04:02 -0700

> Let's say you are composing a document with a couple of SVG pictures, a
> couple of XHTML tables, some mark up from your own problem domain and some
> from another - how are you going to do that without namespaces? Almost all
> of these are going to have element or attribute names clashes somewhere.

What kind of application can handle this?

My point is that the typical XML application doesn't *need* to handle the
example you gave.... and if it *does* the vocabularly will be well-enough
understood that the prefix is unnecessary.

I'm not saying namespaces are useless, simply that many people don't
need them.



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