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Simon St.Laurent wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 21:44, Mark Baker wrote: > > Streaming XML is a good example of where this would be a bad idea. > > If a processor hit the stream mid stride, it would have missed the > > namespace declarations. The same issue applies to processing on small > > devices, where the beginning of larger documents may be discarded from > > memory before the document is finished processing. > > This kind of situation also makes it difficult to use the xmlns feature > reliable. I'm pondering some kind of mechanism for saying "these are > the namespaces I know are here, more may be lurking." > Content-feature is a way to associate tagged values with a MIME message. An xmlns is simply a URI, so this proposal can simply be thought of as a way to associate a set of URIs with a MIME request/reply. I wouldn't specify any particular 'meaning' of this set, allow applications to use it as desired. In that case it really ought not be at all controversial. Jonathan
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