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I'm starting to wonder once again if we'll ever escape the endless cycle of discussion about Namespaces in XML. In January, with the advent of RDDL, I was feeling hopeful. More recently, the unqualified-names-in-qualified-context has led us back to circling round and round. While I'm glad to some extent that my filters produced real (and occasionally outraged) response, I also hoped that they might in some way represent an escape from the complex implications of the subject. By providing conversion from one view of the naming universe to the other, I hoped that maybe we could evade the problems. However, it seems that there are many of us who are uninterested in escape. Some would rather turn toward an equally endless subject, PSVI, to build solutions they think will work for their particular needs. Others simply don't mind the ambiguity involved in using unqualified names, knowing that their software will deal with it. (They don't seem especially concerned about other people's software.) Simple best-practice solutions are fairly easy to come up with, but seemingly just as easy to shoot down, suggesting that there may never be consensus on these issues. I almost wonder if it would be worth quarantining namespace discussions to a separate home. I'm not sure that would work either, though. Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com
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