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Alessandro Triglia wrote: >When people complain about namespaces, do they mean that namespaces should >not exist at all? Do they think they are useless? Or do they think they >should be replaced by something else? Or do they have in mind some simple >changes to the syntax, such as using URI/localname pairs everywhere? > > In my experience, complaints about namespaces boil down to an observation the the Namespaces Rec elegantly solves a problem that's practically non-existent in practice, and utterly fails to assist with real-world integration challenges. Look at any introductory text on namespaces, and the first section explaining why they're needed will have an embarrassingly contrived example. --Try it! .micah -- Available for consulting. XForms, web forms, information overload. Micah Dubinko mailto:micah@d... Brain Attic, L.L.C. http://brainattic.info Yahoo IM: mdubinko Learn XForms today: http://xformsinstitute.com
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