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On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:55 PM, Micah Dubinko wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Tim Bray wrote: > >> Why not just make a clean break with namespaces and >> do extensibility with java-style dot-separated pathnames? > > OK, forgive me for being slow. Could you draw me a picture of what > this might look like? If I wanted to publish a little XML vocabulary for donkey genetics, all 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>. That's all. Distributed extensibility, and you can mix & match without asking anyone. -T
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