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I think the HTML argument is that the context supplies (or implies) the namespace. For example, you'd typically have documents like: <organisation> <name>ABC corp</name> </organisation> <person> <name>Jill Doe</name> </person> Or even: <delegate> <organisation> <name>ABC corp</name> </organisation> <person> <name>Jill Doe</name> </person> </delegate> By this argument 'name' is not ambiguous because of its context. In fact its quite easy to define a schema that has multiple 'name' elements with different meanings. I believe some would say that is bad design though. Pete Cordell Codalogic Ltd Interface XML to C++ the easy way using C++ XML data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes. Visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ or http://www.xml2cpp.com for more info Twitter: http://twitter.com/petecordell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mukul Gandhi" With due respects to people who dislike XML namespaces, Consider the following example: The element "name" here represents an organization name. <name xmlns="http://organization-ns">ABC corp</name> The element "name" here represents a person name. <name xmlns="http://person-ns">Jill Doe</name> If I'm presented with either (or both) of these documents, the namespace binding helps me (and my XML application) to make a logical association between the XML markup and to the domain with which it is related to. And we all say that, XML namespaces helps us to avoid name collisions (one of the example of this is given above). I (therefore) personally like XML namespaces. It's an optional feature. If someone doesn't need XML namespaces in an application, the XML software stack allows implementing such a design decision. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com> wrote: > Isn't it merely that the HTML5 (WHATWG) people were among the many > who found Namespaces more easily ignored than implemented? Life is > too short! Roll on 'MicroXML'! :-) > > Still, there may be many who get some value using namespaces in XML. > ---- > Stephen D Green -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
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