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Re: xml:namespace

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• From: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 09:17:55 +0000
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Dave Pawson <dpawson@n...> wrote:

| <grin/> AF was suggested in the corridor too... or at least AF without 
| the baggage (needs a jargon free re-write perhaps?).

I don't think jargon is much of a bar to grokking AFs (other than perhaps
"architecture" striking some as too bombastic).  But AFs could do with a
rethink+rewrite, anyway.  For instance, reliance on DTDs to pick up the
extra attribute (and other declarative) information may not be the best
approach going forward, and one alternative there is to rework Implicit
LPDs into the mix (Ask Joe English about this - he's thought about it a
bit more than I have).  Yet, there will have to be some variant involving
explicit markup in the instance; for that something on the lines of my
XMap gadget is likely to suffice.

The real problem, I feel, is an intellectual one - to date, people are
still not grasping (or refusing to grasp?) that a name mapping mechanism
is necessary.  When things like xlink:href *versus* html:src become issues
for no better reason than dogma, people like me don't know whether to
laugh or cry.  So we split the difference and throw up.
  

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