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Re: More on namespaces...

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• Subject: Re: More on namespaces...
• From: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 06:23:43 +0000
• In-reply-to: <3EE78660.4020901@d...>
• References: <003601c32e9a$c909a680$a000a8c0@SeairthA31> <3EE78660.4020901@d...>

Bill de hÓra <bill@d...> wrote:
| Seairth Jacobs wrote:

|> The document's primary vocabulary is never namespaced.  
| 
| No reason for this that I can think of. Once you're using namespaces, 
| you don't gain much by only using them sometimes. [...] Once you use 
| namespaces you should use them as given, and be prepared to absorb 
| the overhead involved. 

In a sense, this was predicted, going on six years ago.  Experience has
exposed the pretense that colonification is not syntax (as in including
':' among name-start characters and blithely suggesting that namespaced
stuff can be treated as if they weren't there.) 

| Adding processing rules and constraints over and above the Namespaces 
| spec hasn't been a winning approach in my experience - the singe 
| exception being the elimination of the default namespace.

"Default namespace" was an integral part of the pretense.  Time to give it
up.

• References:
  • More on namespaces...
    • From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...>
  • Re: More on namespaces...
    • From: Bill de hÓra <bill@d...>

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