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Re: repercussions

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• Subject: Re: repercussions
• From: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:25:22 -0500
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/ Tim Bray <tbray@t...> was heard to say:
| On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:12 AM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
|
|> He also points to a nice analogy from Mark Nottingham:
|>
|> http://www.mnot.net/blog/2003/12/06/qnames_are_evil
|>
|> It's good to confirm that issues derided as mere aesthetic blotches are
|> capable of causing real problems for sophisticated tools - and users.
|
| 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.

QNames in content are a disaster, there's no doubt about that. QNames
for element and attribute names are...ugly, but seem like a more
manageable problem.

| I struggled against this idea but lost.  -Tim

I assert that I did to, and I went looking for the minutes where I did
so, but I can't seem to find them in the archives. C'est la vie.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

- -- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@n...> | 'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot
http://nwalsh.com/            | have done that'--says my pride, and remains
                              | adamant. At last--memory yields.--Nietzsche



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