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Re: Registered namespace prefixes

• To: james anderson <james.anderson@s...>
• Subject: Re: Registered namespace prefixes
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:11:09 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <B0B31084-50DF-11D7-AAE7-000393BB8814@s...>

james.anderson@s... (james anderson) writes:
> [...many excellent examples snipped...]
>
>the same situation applies to universal names, "scoped namespaces", 
>bound prefixes, and etc. it would be more productive to identify the 
>inadequacies in the representations used to model them than to try to 
>trace representational artifacts back to the semantics of namespaces.

While I agree with you that there really is no "ideal text", I have a
very hard time finding that a justification for the entirely new burdens
that Namespaces in XML created.  

It makes me laugh and cry that I should have to read through all of the
attributes of a given element just to figure out what the
properly-constructed name of that element is.  The complicating factors
that XML 1.0 itself introduced - default attributes and entities - at
least didn't involve that kind of jumping back and forth.

Namespace semantics are a bad joke.  Let's stop pretending they ever
existed, since no one has ever been able to explain what they are.
Labels without built-in semantics appears to be as far as we've ever
gotten, and that's hardly worth the representational hassle.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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