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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 16:06:55 -0700
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• Thread-topic: namespace reprise

Like I said, I haven't seen any difficulty that isn't "tempet in a
teacup"-esque philosophical or aesthetic arguments. Where is the so
called DIFFICULTY described in the email snippet you posted earlier. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 3:15 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  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.
> 
> Right, right.  There's no problem there, really.  It's just 
> "philosophy" and "aesthetics" on which we've wasted the past 
> four years.
> 
> The wisdom of:
> * Scoped attribute declarations
> * URIs as name components
> * QNames in general
> * attributes left out of the default namespace
> 
> is just so obvious, that what were we thinking?  (I'm sure I 
> left something out of that list.)
> 
> I really hope Tyler Baker has found something better to think about.
> 
> 
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