• To: 'Paul Prescod' <paul@p...>
• Subject: RE: QNames in attribute values
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:18:22 -0600
• Cc: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>

"When the binding of a name and its use can be close together, for human-maintained documents, 
mistakes are much less likely."  Tim-BL

Huh? 

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...]

I'll take a whack at that troll. The SGML-heads tried to make namespaces
global and (IIRC, use a syntax other than attributes). But here's Tim
Berners-Lee's opinion:

http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Extensible.html#Local

SGML compatibility had nothing to do with the scoped attribute syntax.

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