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Pete Cordell scripsit: > My concern with doing this is that it looks like XML namespaces but > isn't, and that will just add to the confusion rather than reduce it. > It's not really shortening a description of XML namespaces, but adding > an extra section along the lines of "...unless it's a namespace used > in MicroXML, in which case ignore what I just told you and handle at > the application level like this..." True. MicroXML is really about a simplified data model, and then a subset of XML that supports that data model. The data model is so simple you can put it into one paragraph: A document's data model consists of at least one element object. An element object is an abstract description of a single element in a document. Each element object has three associated properties: the name, the attribute map, and the sequence of children. The name is a string, the attribute map maps name strings to value strings, and each child in the sequence is either a string representing character data or an element object. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/MicroXML.html As you can see, namespaces aren't mentioned, though the xmlns and xmlns:* attributes are explained in the spec (which is less than 10 pages long). -- We pledge allegiance to the penguin John Cowan and to the intellectual property regime cowan@ccil.org for which he stands, one world under http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Linux, with free music and open source software for all. --Julian Dibbell on Brazil, edited
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