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On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 22:34 -0400, Rick Yorgason wrote: > * If a prefix doesn't match a declared xmlns (formerly ill-formed) it > shall be shorthand for including an xmlns="prefix" attribute. > * Namespaces should be in reversed DNS form. > > With those two changes, namespaces are no longer awkward to use, no > longer difficult to teach, and the cost of adoption for existing > libraries is approximately three lines of code. No longer awkward - for some uses, and they become 100% totally completely broken for other uses. Win some, lose some. > So what do we have to > do to get a new "Namespaces in XML" standard published with these > minimal changes? (1) get consensus that the broken cases don't matter (e.g. the people who dereference a namespace URI to get a GRDDL file to find a Schema) (2) change all existing XML systems to accept your new usage instead of raising an error. This includes... [1] buy everyone a new television [2] buy everyone a new VCR (TVs and VCRs use uPNP in XML to find each other) [3] replace everyone's mobile phone [4] replace iPods [5] re-engineer air traffic control systems, aircraft navigation... [6] replace people's washing machines, and other XML-communicating appliances [7] change all Web Services [8] replace all Microsoft Windows, Gnome, KDE, OS X, desktops [9] car components (brakes, tyres, engines,...) communicate with XML... [9] (many more examples) This is why XML does not in fact get changed very much... Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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