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Andrew Layman wrote, > [snip: characterization of the 3 NS position as a > workaround for XMLs lack of subtyping/inheritance ] This looks like a sound analysis to me. > Of the alternatives that I have seen, only the > proposal for three distinct namespaces seems to have > sufficient information in it. Perhaps so, but: it's the wrong way to do it; it overloads namespaces with baggage they were never intended to carry; and it preempts schemas which will (I believe) address this issue properly, possibly in a way that will make the development of schemas even harder than it is already. In short it's a grotty hack that'll store up more problems for the future than it solves in the present. FWIW, my take on this is that the HTML WG should on this issue now, revert to a single namespace, and return to the problem when schemas are done and provide the resources to deal with it properly. Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin Cromwell Media Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews +44 (0)181 410 2230 London, W6 0LJ msabin@c... England 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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