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RE: Partyin' like it's 1999

• To: "'Hunsberger, Peter'" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>, "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <len.bullard@i...>, "'Michael Champion'" <michaelc.champion@g...>
• Subject: RE: Partyin' like it's 1999
• From: "Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@m...>
• Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:32:04 -0400
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <1E0CC447E59C974CA5C7160D2A2854EC02FECF3D@S...>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hunsberger, Peter [mailto:Peter.Hunsberger@S...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 16:59
> To: Bullard, Claude L (Len); Michael Champion
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Partyin' like it's 1999
> 
> 
> Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@i...> asks:
>  
> > Ok.  Any parties interested in posting their favorite five 
> > bad problems with XML in order here?  I wonder what the 
> > consensus is on the top two.  (XML, not XML apps like 
> > XSD.)
> 
> 1) Namespaces
> 2) Namespaces
> 3) Namespaces
> 4) Namespaces
> 5) Namespaces


When people complain about namespaces, do they mean that namespaces should
not exist at all?  Do they think they are useless?  Or do they think they
should be replaced by something else?  Or do they have in mind some simple
changes to the syntax, such as using URI/localname pairs everywhere?

Alessandro


> 
> I almost wrote legacy support for DTDs for 5, but it's 
> sometimes an easy
> short cut for things you won't me diss (IE XSD).
> 
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