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RE: Global/Local attributes

• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Global/Local attributes
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:28:15 -0600
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> At 06:12 PM 8/1/2002 -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> >What is broken is the existence of a default namespace. Further 
> >mangling Namespaces in XML to accomodate this mistake is unwise 
> >and borders on foolishness.
>
> Simon replies: 
> Fair enough.  That cuts to the core more neatly than any of the 
> other proposals I've heard or made.

Let me add my strong support. I've long believed that default namespaces
are inherently *evil* in that they've done more to confuse the masses
than any other aspect of XML. This fundamental flaw seems to pollute
every new XML specification in some obscure way. If they didn't exist,
as Dare points out, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion (or
many others that pop up on this list). I wish they would just go away.

-aaron
http://staff.develop.com/aarons

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