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Re: Pragmatic namespaces

• From: Michael Ludwig <mlu@as-guides.com>
• To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:37:49 +0200

Pete Cordell schrieb:
> Original Message From: "Tim Bray"

>> the elements would have names like  <org.tbray.donkeys.father> and
>> <org.tbray.donkeys.birth-date> and so on.  And if this were being
>> used  by IETF when we did atom, the tags would be like
>> <org.ietf.atom.feed>  and <org.ietf.atom.entry>.
>
> Non-reversed still works better for me, i.e.:
>
> <father.donkeys.tbray.org>
> <birth-date.donkeys.tbray.org>
> <feed.atom.ietf.org>
> <entry.atom.ietf.org>

At least this way, for LTR readers, which I believe largely
majoritarian, the local part, which is likely to be less
redundant than the namespace part, stands out.

However, I find that, reversed or not, the repetition of the
redundant namespace part constitutes a major tedium and does
not positively contribute to readability.

-- 
Michael Ludwig

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