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On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Andrew Layman wrote: > Clark Evans asks why PIs are not the mechanism for namespace > declaration. That option was extensively debated during the design > process (see the archives for details). What archives? The index at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ does not carry the xml-sig list. Even though that list has been defunct for over a year, it's only W3C process rules or somesuch that "justify" its non-publication. Any number of questions and debates about namespaces on this list and others could have been answered if not resolved with much less traffic had the archives been available for scrutiny. > The short answer is that PIs do not have tree scope, so are unsuitable > for modular document construction. Um, no. Check the archives for details:-) As David Megginson writes: : There are a lot of answers to this question, but in the end, the real : argument was that PIs cause display problems in level-3 and level-4 : HTML browsers, and some influential parties [1] had a strong interest : in being able to write HTML+XML documents that, by various sorts of : lexical trickery, could still be displayed in XML-oblivious browsers : like Netscape 3. and David Brownell comments: : More accurate is that certain person (or persons) disliked : PIs extremely, if even a tenth of what I've heard is accurate. Yep, a part of W3C Canon. Keeping The Web Safe For Netploder. Arjun 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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