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At 10:28 PM 9/5/99 -0700, David Brownell wrote: >I hope this begins to reflect some kind of consensus -- "First, >do no harm". The XHTML spec will be helpful without addressing >the namespace issue -- a straight XML 1.0 application. Although >I'd far prefer to see a single namespace defined for (X)HTML, it >could wait for a while yet. No it can't! The damage is already starting to creep in - for example, look at IE5, which recognizes HTML tags using the hardwired prefix "html:" - something any moron can see is fragile and broken. But we can't reasonably get mad at Microsoft because the W3C just can't be bothered to define a name for HTML, something that would take about 15 minutes once they realized it was worth doing. Yes, I've raised this point repeatedly within the W3C - I don't know what the problem is. Maybe it's as Ann points out - since we haven't yet built a universal related-package-of-truth discovery mechanism for XML, they're going to punish us by denying us the limited (but real) benefits of a robust, reliable way to distinguish which tags are HTML and which aren't. Dammit, if the W3C obstinately refuses to give HTML a name for programmers to hang their hats on, I'm going to start a campaign right here in xml-dev for *us* to pick something, it'll be easier than designing SAX. -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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