[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Namespaces Not Necessarily Unrepentant Evil
At 07:31 PM 8/27/98 -0500, W. Eliot Kimber wrote: >I still have some concerns about namespaces that I think are legitimate: > >1. The use of name spaces alone does not satisfy requirements that an >architecture-like approach does satisfy Granted. Hence the following is serious: >2. I see some enterprises and people overselling the power of namespaces Yes. Fortunately, at this point most such people collapse instantly given the slightest technical challenge. Four words: "Namespaces don't do that." It is our responsibility as community leaders to get out there and make this clear to the world. >3. The effectively compulsory use of name spaces unnecessarily complicates >XML parsers and processors. I don't buy it. The extra work is hardly noticeable and I don't expect it to affect performance in the slightest. >4. Name spaces take away authorial choice of element type and attribute >names. No, just of the prefix. I expect that once we have namespace-aware schemas, they will never contain a prefix, so the document designer and author should think entirely in terms of <start-time> and <duration> and so on, and if when a chunk of that markup gets assembled into a package for delivery, if those become <sex:start-time> and <sex:duration> who cares? >Again, my apologies to those who I badgered inappropriately. Not required. -Tim 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...)
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|