On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 4:04 PM Pieter Masereeuw pieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My experience is that namespaces are useful but far too often used without
> a real need.
>
About overuse of XML namespaces, I think people who know XML namespaces
well, would use them when they're really required.

> Some people seem to like complexity. I don't.
>
For me, using XML namespaces is about having good design, and not worrying
about program complexity.

> you only need namespaces when you mix several XML languages, such as in
> the case of XSLT and XSL-FO (where you can mix in foreign content, such as
> SVG).
>
That's true.

Sometimes, even when within an XML application, there's only one namespace
to work with, people use namespaces as a project or an organizational
association with XML data. Using XML data for serious work, without the
namespaces, sometimes gives a feeling that XML data has come from
wild without any claim of ownership (using namespaces looks more sensible
with such cases).

> In cases where I design my own simple XML, I avoid using them, to keep
> things simple.
>
I too also follow the same pattern.

> By the way: living by prefix only may be theoretically unsound, but, as an
> example, if your root element is xsl:stylesheet, and if it is being
> processed by an XSLT processor, then for all practical purposes it's
> obvious what the prefix xsl means.
>
I think that, the problem with using only the prefixes in XML names, is
that it has high chances of name collisions (that namespaces are designed
to solve).



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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi