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RE: RE: Namespaces A Mess?

• To: "'Robin Berjon'" <robin.berjon@e...>
• Subject: RE: RE: Namespaces A Mess?
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:37:33 +0100
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> Most of the issues you bring up in your (excellent) list are however 
> problems that are faced by and large not by end-users trying to use 
> namespaces but rather by specification and (lower-level) tool makers.
> 

I agree that many users wouldn't express the problems in those terms.
They're more likely to ask questions such as "how can I stop the xmlns=""
appearing in the result", or "why doesn't the match='body' template get
invoked"? My list tries to translate the many difficulties that users
experience into a statement of the underlying problems in the specification.

Michael Kay

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