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Re: Pragmatic namespaces

• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• To: "Liam Quin" <liam@w3.org>,"Tim Bray" <Tim.Bray@S...>
• Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:36:05 +0100

Original Message From: "Liam Quin"

> Donkeys can't type very fast... I can see there there might be pushback
> for this proposal on the grounds that it's considerably more verbose
> than most other current proposals, with the exception of the {...}
> syntax...

See my proposal from yesterday that allowed partial namespaces 
(http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200908/msg00033.html ).

> also, it can't easily be made compatible with
> things like ch.cern.html (later org.ietf.html, and then org.w3.html,
> of course, and also ch.iso.html...)

If you make the namespace more obviously separable from the local name, (for 
example, by using a : rather than another .), then the XML parser can be 
informed as a local implementation that namespace org.ietf.html is an alias 
of namespace org.w3.html (or better still, namespace html.ietf.org is an 
alias of namespace html.w3.org).  So when the parser encounters 
<body:html.ietf.org> it can return the equivalent of <body:html.w3.org>.

Pete Cordell
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