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Re: HTML5 and almost no namespaces

• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:29:42 -0500

[Michael Kay]
 > You're saying you like namespaces because they are a solution to a 
real problem.
 > But the objection to namespaces is not that there is no problem to be 
solved, it is that namespaces (as currently defined) are
 > a bad solution to that problem; they introduce far too
 > much complexity in relation to the size of the problem. Far simpler 
solutions are available to allow names to be disambiguated.

Amen!

Sean McGrath
Long time xml advocate but also somebody who has been severely burned 
and even traumatized by xml namespaces over the years!
http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com