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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > I would really appreciate if someday the people building W3C specs would > acknowledge that 'average developers' actually do have to worry about > namespaces, notations, parameter entities, include/ignore sections, and > trying to read the specs themselves. In my mind, this is just silly. I've never read the "SQL Specs" (have you?) and I certainly don't know everything there is to know about SQL or relational database technology. That doesn't make me a knuckle-dragging neanderthal. It makes me someone who recognizes that he doesn't need to know EVERYTHING about EVERY technology he uses. That's a losing proposition for a working programmer. I'm also someone who recognizes that it is not appropriate to dumb down everything so that I *CAN* understand it in its entirety. All I ask is that the actual interfaces that I am asked to work with be simplified so that I can follow them. The "interface" to namespaces for a developer is SAX or RDF engine and eventually DOM. *That's* what should be simple. Namespaces are an infrastructure technology. You use them THROUGH something, like RDF. Without something like RDF they are essentially useless. So unless you think that "RDF" is for the "average developer", namespaces are not for the average developer. When/if something like RDF takes off that situation may change. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --Faith Whittlesey 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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