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Re: repercussions

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• Subject: Re: repercussions
• From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:20:19 -0500
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On Dec 19, 2003, at 12:29 PM, Tim Bray wrote:

>
> It is now crystal-clear that allowing qnames to escape from element & 
> attribute names into content was a terrible mistake that we're now 
> stuck with forever.  I struggled against this idea but lost.  -Tim
>
Well, we're not stuck with these things "forever."  If they are really 
lorts more trouble than they are worth, Father Darwin will fix them by 
killing them off, sooner or later .... the trouble is that He will 
"fix" a lot of other stuff that might be valuable while He is at it, 
maybe including XML itself.

The question in my mind is whether the W3C (or a hypothetical "XML 
Interoperability Organization" since I'll bet heavily that W3C won't 
touch it) should try to fix it in a more surgical way before things 
start getting really ugly?  Or should we just trust evolution to sort 
it all out in the long run?

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