[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Namespace Processing Hints and Rant on Scoping/Defaulting
David Megginson wrote: > That said, I still really HATE the new declaration namespace syntax > and the scoping/defaulting, but for reasons other than the problem of > DTD validation: the whole thing reminds me too much of my first early > experiences with BASIC, assembly language, etc., when people were > writing giant, monolithic programs to avoid the supposed overhead of > function calls. Today, some people want to build giant monolithic XML > documents to avoid the supposed overhead of multiple HTTP fetches. I agree on this feeling. I also think that the new WD makes an XML document monolithic. Since the namespace of an element can be declarared by any of its superiors, we can no longer "divide and conquer" XML documents. (Fragment validation is no longer possible.) Makoto Fuji Xerox Information Systems Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231 E-mail: murata@a... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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