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At 12:42 PM 9/16/99 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >At 12:27 PM 9/16/99 -0400, Ann Navarro wrote: >>Nothing in the current proposals being debated sets functionality. Instead, >>it provides granularity in namespaces making a nod toward the possibility >>of additional functionality. >>It may turn out to be unnecessary, but as I've said before, I believe it >>easier to remove that granularity later (or simply ignore it), than it will >>be to put it back in at some later date. > >I still find this argument unconvincing. One schema per namespace appears >to be what you're arguing for here No. I'm arguing that each flavor of XHTML is sufficiently different (idiom, dialect, what have you) that it deserves a different namespace. Information about those namespaces may, if the W3C chooses to follow this path, be obtained from a schema, DTD, or other data source at the end of that URI. >It may be that the tools we have are inadequate. I don't think, however, >that we've yet reached the conclusion that three namespaces will let us do >better with either the tools we have today or the tools we may have tomorrow. Nor have we reached the conclusion that they won't. I'd rather provide the ability now than have to try and add it back in. It should also be noted that these is not the *only* use case being considered (see Steven's summary). Ann --- Author of Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials Coming in September --- Mastering XML Founder, WebGeek Communications http://www.webgeek.com Vice President-Finance, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Director, HWG Online Education http://www.hwg.org/services/classes 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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