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Re: [XML Schema] Here's how to empower instance documentauthor

• From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:57:56 -0400

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On 10/14/2012 10:24 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> Since MicroXML does not have namespaces, I am attempting to 
> resuscitate architectural forms for it.  See 
> http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/microaf.html for my current proposals. 
> (It will work for either XML or MicroXML.)

I’m forced to ask: why?

Hardly anyone used archforms in SGML, and the facility exists
perfectly well within XML, and no one (other than the XML Linking
Working Group, of which I was a part) saw fit to use it.

I suspect the answer is that the loss of namespaces in MicroXML means
that a facility is needed to replace them... but why not
better-designed namespaces?  One can conceive of namespace
declarations that are not as atrocious as W3C namespaces, but which
are mutually compatible with them (in fact, best practices uses of W3C
namespaces are not, ultimately, so bad).

~Chris
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