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Re: WD for Namespaces 1.1

• To: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Subject: Re: WD for Namespaces 1.1
• From: Marcus Carr <mcarr@a...>
• Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 18:17:14 +1000
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Organization: Allette Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Ronald Bourret wrote:

> I think you're missing something. Forcing parser writers to implement
> namespaces is not the same as forcing document authors to use them.

No, but as long as namespaces not part of the recommendation, as DTD is a viable
mechanism. As soon as they are part of the recommendation, a DTD is potentially
incapable of dealing with "vanilla" v1.1 documents. I would have a hard time justifying
keeping DTDs under those circumstances.

> The
> only people who would be hurt by requiring namespace support in XML 1.1
> are those who (against the advice of the XML 1.0 spec) use colons in
> element type and attribute names. I'm curious if anybody actually does
> this.

I can't imagine that they do, but that's not the issue, I don't think.


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Marcus Carr                      email:  mcarr@a...
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