• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: misprocessing namespaces (was Re: There isa meaning, but it's not in the data alone)
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: 30 Jan 2002 14:46:16 -0500
• Cc: The Deviants <xml-dev@l...>
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On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 13:31, Tim Bray wrote:
> At 12:52 PM 30/01/02 -0500, Mike Champion wrote:
> >>Weirder, actually. Like:
> >><test http://foo.com/bar/baz="value" />
> >
> >What's weird about that (other than the http:// ...and all the 
> >baggage that drags along with it)?  I thought terseness was not a 
> >consideration for XML?  
> 
> Allowing "/" as a name-char will certainly complicate parsers.
> 
> Aside from that, it's certainly admirably simple. -Tim

I don't have any fundamental problem with it.  

I just marvel at how they could have reached that conclusion from any
experience with XML namespaces such as they are!
 
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Simon St.Laurent
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