• From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:14:41 +0100

the reason why it is bad is obvious, CSS is useful for slotting in and
out what is inessential to understanding of the data, mainly the
presentation, while namespaces (as currently defined) are an essential
part of understanding what the data is.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On Feb 20, 2008 11:42 AM, Manos Batsis <manos_lists@g...> wrote:
> Dmitry Turin wrote:
> > I propose to specify namespace not only in tags themselves,
> > but also in CSS, what is more convenient in much cases. E.g.
>
> Does not look right. This will hide namespace information from the XML
> parser, unless it is able to parse CSS as well. Other than that, CSS
> namespace awareness [1] is crucial for proper styling of XML documents.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-namespace/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Manos
>
>
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