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RE: Pragmatic namespaces

  • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
  • To: <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:10:34 +0100

RE:  Pragmatic namespaces
> XSD 1.0 had xsi:type because its bogus models of what people 
> used attributes for was not sustainable.
> 
> XSD 1.1 fixes this a little by allowing selection of type by 
> a wider range of markup. So I would expect that xsi:type will 
> wither on the vine over the next decade. I don't know that it 
> is a show-stopper, because there is a better workaround.
> 
> (The rub being that where companies don't switch to the 
> latest version of the XSD 1.1 spec, they will be more stuck 
> with xsi:type. And this rub exists largely because XSD 1.0 is 
> so monolithic that implementers are loath to re-visit their 
> implementations.)

There are some important specs like FpML that (for better or for worse)
place very heavy reliance on xsi:type, and the reality is that they aren't
going to change in a hurry: there are zillions of financial transactions
whizzing around the world that use this attribute.

Incidentally XSLT also makes use of namespaced attributes (e.g.
xsl:use-when). They aren't used in every stylesheet, but they serve an
important purpose and you can't just get rid of them.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 



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