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Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...> writes: > At 6:48 AM -0400 4/28/00, David Megginson wrote: > >Yes, I was reluctant to make the change, but I got a lot of flak > >(private and public) for choosing "RawName" over "QName", especially > >when other XML-related specs use the latter. > > As long as we're making the change from RawName, is there any chance > we could use getQualfiedName() instead of getQName()? QName is really > only an abbreviation used in the BNF grammar. The namespaces spec > elsewhere spells it out as "qualified name". QName is quite cryptic. > QualifiedName seems a little more legible to me. A worthy suggestion, but I'd prefer not to ambush implementors twice in a row. I know that anyone implementing a beta or pre-release takes her chances, etc. etc., but it's still nice not to make life hard for them without a strong reason. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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