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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > > Let's say you are composing a document with a couple of SVG pictures, a > > couple of XHTML tables, some mark up from your own problem domain and some > > from another - how are you going to do that without namespaces? Almost all > > of these are going to have element or attribute names clashes somewhere. > > What kind of application can handle this? Mozilla. > My point is that the typical XML application doesn't *need* to handle the > example you gave.... and if it *does* the vocabularly will be well-enough > understood that the prefix is unnecessary. > > I'm not saying namespaces are useless, simply that many people don't > need them. s/people/applications/ Please don't confuse the two. ;-) -- <Matt/> Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org *************************************************************************** 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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