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Don Park wrote: > > I have read the latest namespace spec. While I am sure that a lot > considerations and discussions have gone into the spec, I am compelled to > ask why something like the following was not chosen? [element based solution deleted] Because it was felt undesirable that namespace processing should change the structure of the element tree. > If attribute-based namespace declaration is the only way to go, why not use > a simple word like 'namespace' instead of 'xmlns' so that its purpose is > clear to the reader? Only names beginning with "xml" (any case) are reserved by the XML spec. > If 'namespace' is too common, people can qualify it with 'xml' like this > 'xml:namespace'? Using 'xml:namespace' would mean that a namespace 'foo' was declared using xml:namespace:foo="..." which looks very strange to me. James 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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