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On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Micah Dubinko<micah.dubinko@marklogic.com> wrote: > #3 may be a non-issue *for HTML*. One reason why this case gets less > attention is that is no consensus exists that using namespaces as a major > version number is a best practice (see, for example, the one namespace vs > three debates from another era of XHTML) > Side note: I think there is consensus on this, and the consensus is that it's a bad idea. Consensus was reached on this, if I recall, about 10 years ago in the context of XHTML and really hasn't need to be revisited since. As long as you're keeping many of the dame elements with the same meaning a new namespace doesn't help and is usually actively harmful. Only if you're more or less replacing a language with a completely different one would a new namespace be appropriate. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@ibiblio.org
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