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RE: WD for Namespaces 1.1

• To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@t...>,"xml-dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: WD for Namespaces 1.1
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:03:32 -0800
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• Thread-topic: WD for Namespaces 1.1

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...] 
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:53 AM
> To: xml-dev
> Subject: Re:  WD for Namespaces 1.1
> 
> 
> At 04:11 PM 04/04/02 -0800, Ronald Bourret wrote:
> >Namespaces were (and still are) a good idea. Using URLs as 
> example URIs 
> >in the namespaces spec was a bad idea. It led people to think about 
> >dereferencing namespace names which, if you think about it, 
> is about as 
> >odd as dereferencing Java package names. Sure, you can come 
> up with a 
> >mechanism to do it, but why would you want to?
> 
> It would be nice if there a canonical place to find the 
> javadoc output.  In fact it would be *very* nice. -Tim
> 

Indeed, nothing would be more fruitful than raising the bar for software
development to include maintaining a website with documentation on the
classes involved in the application that must match whatever namespace
that was chosen during development. 

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