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RE: Programming for Markup vs. Markup for Programming

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• Subject: RE: Programming for Markup vs. Markup for Programming
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:31:49 -0400
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At 4:24 PM -0500 8/2/02, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:


>Again:
>
>XML1.0 = Core
>CORE + (anything to the right of the plus, eg, namespaces)
>
>Yes, I realize that people want namespaces in core.  It's
>a bad idea and if these threads don't get that across
>clearly, people aren't listening.  There is a lot of
>basic work that can be done that never touches namespaces.
>The core should be the absolute smallest set of features
>that guarantee global interoperability.
>

Leaving out namespaces does not guarantee global interoperability. It 
actively harms it. It is not that you must use namespaces. You are 
free not to use namespaces if they are not useful to you. That's OK. 
What is not OK, is designing XML in a way that that is incompatible 
with namespaces; e.g. using colonized names without declaring the 
prefixes.  If you designed names-malformed documents, then many 
parsers and process will automatically reject your documents.

Core is, I think, namespace well-formed documents. This includes 
documents that don't use namespaces at all. It does not include 
documents that are incompatible with namespaces.
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