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Re: Venetian Blinds vs Garden of Eden patterns for industry st

• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• To: "David Carlisle" <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:01:15 +0100

Original Message From: "David Carlisle"
>
> On 28/10/2010 18:30, Pete Cordell wrote:
>> "put this funny prefix on the first element, and the odd attribute in
>> the start and then you don't have to worry about XML namespaces anymore"
>> seems like a big win.
>
>
> But if you put all the elements in the same namespace the same would be 
> true except there would be far less namespace problems to worry about, 
> What you refer to as an "xpath issue" isn't really anything to do with 
> namespaces it is just the extra complication introduced by having two 
> namespaces (or rather a namespace and the no-namespace) rather than the 
> much simpler and more common choice of having all the related elements in 
> the same namespace.


My personal take is that namespaces are good for all the reasons that 
namespaces are useful in other programming contexts.  Among these are the 
ability to re-use types defined in separate standard (for some definition of 
standard) type libraries.  But just because your schema uses the 'widget' 
type declared in the 'http://widgetlib.org' namespace shouldn't necessarily 
mean that 'http://widgetlib.org' should appear in your instance documents.

Pete Cordell
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