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 From my experience in similar matters, I would say that waiting for evolution to fix it will end up in the kinds of issues that we all faced with the Y2K issues a few years back. That was a problem that many programmers were aware of, and were content to leave to evolution, believing that it would not get so close to the wire before such a necessity existed, or from a belief that their applications would not still be in use 20 years after they wrote them. <G> Unfortunately, I don't think it will be fixed now, since it is not absolutely necessary to do so at the moment. Evolution will only take over if it gets so bad that it costs more in the short term not to fix it. Chris Strolia-Davis Database Specialist Contractor - CDO Technologies Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Champion [mailto:mc@x...] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:20 PM To: 'xml-dev@l...' Subject: Re: repercussions On Dec 19, 2003, at 12:29 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > > It is now crystal-clear that allowing qnames to escape from element & > attribute names into content was a terrible mistake that we're now > stuck with forever. I struggled against this idea but lost. -Tim > Well, we're not stuck with these things "forever." If they are really lorts more trouble than they are worth, Father Darwin will fix them by killing them off, sooner or later .... the trouble is that He will "fix" a lot of other stuff that might be valuable while He is at it, maybe including XML itself. The question in my mind is whether the W3C (or a hypothetical "XML Interoperability Organization" since I'll bet heavily that W3C won't touch it) should try to fix it in a more surgical way before things start getting really ugly? Or should we just trust evolution to sort it all out in the long run? ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> 
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