[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Multiple namespaces for HTML... why?
there were some notes on this topic back several weeks ago. my reading was that, for certain element types - those which would otherwise share a name, but are declared with different content models, the desire was to distinguish the names by virtue of their namespace. those elements which do have the same model are, on the other hand, an argument against this. from some viewpoints, these latter are an argument for the ability to inherit names among namespaces, but that's another story. the same issue may reappear once folks start dealing with versioning. Tim Bray wrote: > > At 01:08 PM 2/24/99 -0500, Frank Boumphrey wrote: > >The new working draft for XHTML is available at > > > >http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-html-in-xml-19990224/ > > What I find weird is having three namespaces for HTML. The costs of > this are obvious - every programmer who wants to, for example, process > HTML <A> or <FORM> elements is going to have to check each one against > three namespaces? > > I assume there must be some benefits to having 3 namespaces for > HTML, but they're not self-apparent. -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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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