Re: namespaces redux (was: Re: [XML Schema]Here's ho

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On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:28:49 -0400, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> On 10/15/2012 12:09 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> (in fact, best practices uses of W3C namespaces are not, ultimately, so
bad).
>
>> You need to be more concrete in your proposal I think :-)
>
> I don’t recall making a proposal... just a critique.  Far easier. (-:

Some possible best practices:

1) do not use QNames in content. This makes use of things like schema
and xslt nearly impossible, but at least avoid creating any new xml
dialect that does this.

2) declare all bindings to prefixes other than the default as widely as
possible, and never change them. That is, declare on the root element,
use only one prefix for each namespace, and once bound, never change
the binding. Try to only use non-default prefixes only for attributes,
if that is possible.

3) permit re-binding of the default prefix where needed. Prefer to
rebind the default prefix (null prefix) if elements from a foreign
namespace appear (that is, try to use non-default prefixes only for
attributes).