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Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....

• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:33:14 +0100

> I just hope people will actually evaluate the costs of using namespaces
> before automatically sticking them on everything.

You can't go far wrong if:

- You pick a namespace that will never change: don't use dates, or
words like 'proposed' or 'beta', or embed version information
- You always use a prefix
- You tell the team to always use an XML parser to read the XML, and
an XML writer to serialise the XML, and never ever process XML as a
string



-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/

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