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Re: A multi-step approach on defining object-orientednatureof

• To: jenglish@f... (Joe English)
• Subject: Re: A multi-step approach on defining object-orientednatureof DOM
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 20:31:07 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200208220017.g7M0HM331421@d...> from "Joe English" at Aug 21, 2002 05:17:22 PM

Joe English scripsit:

> (Actually, I would go one step further and argue that
> any XML vocabulary which is not designed to be mixed
> with elements from other vocabularies ought not to use
> namespaces at all.  There are valid arguments against
> this position, of course.)

I hold that it is inappropriate to label a namespace "Not to be
combined with others"; names in namespaces are resources for
constructing document (types).

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own
skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among
other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."  --Edsger Dijkstra

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