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

• From: Michael Ludwig <milu71@gmx.de>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 22:55:14 +0200

Max Toro schrieb am 09.04.2010 um 16:19:00 (-0400)
[Re:  To namespace or not to Namespace ....]:

> > It all goes back to the fact that the namespace facility as designed
> > back in 1999 was a really bad piece of design work.

> I've heard that namespaces is a bad design several times, but I cannot
> understand why it's a bad design, simply because I don't know what a
> good design is. Namespaces is all I know, I have no reason to believe
> it's a bad design unless someone point me to a good design, are there
> any?

I'm championing statically determinable namespaces that could be
declared using a super-easy DTD syntax. I think it's a good design!
But sadly, no one has ever commented. :-( I wonder whether this is
because they think it's a bad idea?

http://www.devcomments.com/To-namespace-or-not-to-Namespace-at131339.htm

Some people think the DTD per se is a bad idea, but I don't :-)

Here's how I grokked - after having become aware of various usability
problems, which most of the time aren't problems for us power users -
what's another real problem with namespaces, thanks to a kind
explanation by Michael Kay:

http://markmail.org/message/utae2qaibwkky7gr

And here is the idea I then came up with:

http://markmail.org/message/dbldtr52yawcrbtv

-- 
Michael Ludwig

• References:
  • To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: David <dlee@calldei.com>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: Kendall Shaw <kshaw@kendallshaw.com>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
  • RE: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: Max Toro <maxtoroq@gmail.com>