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Re: RE: James Clark: XML versus the Web

• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@ibiblio.org>
• To: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>
• Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:59:31 -0500

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com> wrote:

> I'm increasingly of the opinion that XML "jumped the shark" with the
> XML Namespaces specification.

Namespaces was at least the nose of the shark. I think we really
should have insisted that prefixes not be able to be bound to more
than one URI in the same document.

Schemas are bad, but ignorable.

I remain convinced, though, that the single biggest mistake was DOM.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@ibiblio.org

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