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

• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• To: stephengreenubl@gmail.com
• Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:44:52 +0100

On 7 April 2010 19:39, Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com> wrote:
> The strongest antipathy in this thread against namespaces and prefixes
> seems to be from those considering people actually seeing and editing
> the raw XML but surely the real problems are for those writing code to
> handle the XML if it contains multiple prefixes / namespaces. Then there
> is likely to be a real attempt to remove the prefixes by first converting the
> XML into something without them before writing all the real code - so as to
> avoid code-maintenance nightmares.

What code maintenance nightmares do you get from processing XML with
multiple prefixes / namespaces?



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• References:
  • To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: David <dlee@calldei.com>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
  • Re: To namespace or not to Namespace ....
    • From: Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>