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RE: namespace reprise

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: namespace reprise
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:09:56 -0700
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• Thread-topic: namespace reprise

I'd be more interested in someone who can point out the the difficulty
caused by namespaces in XML that don't boil down to philosophical or
aesthetic arguments. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:50 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  namespace reprise
> 
> 
> Just a classic moment from 1999 that we might all do well to remember:
> ----------------------------------------------
> There is a difference between easy and understandable.  I am 
> one of the folks that feels information management can always 
> be made easier; "Namespaces in XML" I feel makes things 
> harder overall.
> 
> True genius is being able to make complex things simple so it 
> is very hard for me to understand how "Namespaces in XML" got 
> to be the way it is considering the editors and WG members 
> are all well-respected, intelligent people.  Sometimes smart 
> people get lazy in trying to build solutions that the next 
> generation of programmers and developers can first understand 
> and then build upon.  I think that "Namespaces in XML" 
> totally ignores the very important goal of making XML an 
> architecture that the next generation can understand and build upon.
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> If there's anyone who doubts that we've been stuck in an 
> endless circle for years now, this is probably the classic 
> vitriolic post.  No, I didn't write it.  Tyler Baker did.
> 
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/654680

Tyler is clearly smarter than I am, since he appears to have moved on.

I'd be curious to hear if anyone thinks there are aspects of Namespaces
in XML that have problems which we haven't discussed yet.  I suspect
that we've been over the minefield quite thoroughly.

(And yes, I've been revisiting the archives lately - differences in
perspective, and lacks of difference are pretty interesting.)



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