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At 10:11 AM 8/30/99 -0400, Ann Navarro wrote: >At 10:12 AM 8/30/99 +0800, James Tauber wrote: >>However, as David Megginson and Tim Bray have argued, capturing the >>commonality between, say, "p" in each DTD is not just valuable, but pretty >>much vital. > >I think that the distinctions are just as vital, from the global >perspective, not just from an application developer perspective. This may sound like a stupid question, but as I stated earlier I've never seen those distinctions as either useful or worthwhile. In what sense do you see those distinctions as vital? What do they do, apart from add varying levels of obfuscation? What is this 'global perspective', and how does it matter to developers and users? It really reads like a badly thought-out grandfather clause foolishly insterted into HTML a few versions ago. Sometimes history is an anchor dragging us down rather than a useful guide to the future. Adding namespaces to an issue that's already of uncertain value seems to generate enormous amounts of chaos. Personally, I'd have like to see namespaces used to indicate modules within XHTML - though I know that presents large problems as well - not to identify different flavors of XHTML itself. After more coffee, I'll try to come up with better questions. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer (2nd Ed - September) Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com 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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