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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:22 PM, David Lee <dlee@calldei.com> wrote: -- > Michael Kay I think the metaphor is that XMLNS is less the mountain (i.e. multiplicity of vocabulary, or if you prefer, tower of babel) and more the mechanism used to negotiate the mountain (i.e. on hands & knees, though I'd personally say on hands and knees with a bed of nails strapped to one's back).
So no no one needs to reconstruct the mountain. Human history has done a great job of that already. But just look at what you said in the last para. What database technology have you seen other than XML that uses such an arcane, unreliable, inscrutable, edge-case ridden mechanism to just say "index one type of field and not another that coincidentally looks a lot like it"? There are numerous ways to solve that problem, including many less ridiculous than XMLNS.
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