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>The namespace spec gets more over-interpretation than any document this >side of the Old Testament. It seems simple to me. I beg to differ. The namespace spec is short and hard to read, difficult to understand, and leaves the reader with many unanswered questions. Answers might have been in the spec in the form of some carefully chosen sequence of words but they were not apparent. It is also lumpy in terms of information density which has similar effect as being questioned by Colombo: easy sentences mixed with hard logic ambushes. Considering that namespaces affect most XML developers, this is truely unfortunate. If the spec seems simple to you, that is because you are one of the authors. My evidence for its failure to satisfy the readers is in the very confusions and over-interpretations you have noted. Like the majority of the XML developers, I have tremendous respect for the work you have done, especially the XML spec. I do hope you will consider what can be done to remedy the situation rather than trying to defend the namespace spec. Perhaps the Annotated Namespaces in XML will do the job if it fully discusses the implications and applications of namespaces. Perhaps not. We, the slaves of the standard specs which seemingly breeds like rabbits, have very little control over these matters without getting [expletive deleted] off as a whole. We are at your mercy. Help us if you can. Best, Don Park Docuverse 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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