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Simon North wrote: > Namespaces: no-one is happy about namespaces. Maybe I should leave it > to Jon himself to speak his piece, but in the panel session on the > current status of the standards (SGML + XML) he said that XML was > almost stopped in its tracks by the W3C because other working groups > claimed that the XML group was not giving them what they needed. > Namespaces was more or less forced on them (he didn't actually say > the words 'ad hoc solution' but that was the flavour) and there are > a lot of problems with it. I am quite happy with the current working draft of the namespace mechanism. Although I am not entirely happy, I would say I am happier with the namespace than I am with XML 1.0. It is true that many issues are remaining and they are left to the schema extension, but the namespace extension is a great step, as I see it. Makoto Fuji Xerox Information Systems Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231 E-mail: murata@a... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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