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RE: namespace reprise

• To: "Emmanuil Batsis \(Manos\)" <mbatsis@h...>,"Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: namespace reprise
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:32:30 +0200
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <3D638EB8.2010905@h...>

> From: Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) [mailto:mbatsis@h...]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:00 PM
> To: Julian Reschke; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  namespace reprise
>
>
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> >>From: Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) [mailto:mbatsis@h...]
> >>
> >>
> >>That's exactly the option I'm after: a one to one relationship between a
> >>namespace and a schema, and a one to many relationship between a
> >>
> >>
> >
> >There isn't on in the general case. Consider XHTML.
> >
>
> Where did that came from? XHTML uses doctypes/DTDs and even XHTML m12n
> in schema does not even come close to what we are talking about.

Old discussion from when XHTML 1.0 came out. It has a single namespace name,
but multiple schemata.

> >Changing the namespace name means that no existing code will
> process these
> >documents, as it would be testing for the old namespace.
> >
>
> Nor should existing code process the new namespaced document. However

Well then it's simply an incompatible change. I guess that's many people
would prefer to avoid.

> you haven't answered my question on how will processing of *old*
> documents break.

Well, your new code will have to explicitly support both namespaces. In
XSLT, that's a nightmare.

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