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Eliot Kimber writes: 2. I see some enterprises and people overselling the power of namespaces in a way that seems to be both dangerous and irresponsible, if not downright unethical. For example, if I can save Word documents as XML but only if every element type starts "msword:" then what have I gained? Not a great deal more than I already have with RTF. "You can have any name space you want as long as it's black" is not an acceptable answer. Indeed. Well said. 3. The effectively compulsory use of name spaces unnecessarily complicates XML parsers and processors. One of the advantages of architecture-like approaches is that parsers and processors need not be aware of them because they don't modify the basic syntax of documents. The specter of qualified names becoming part of the base XML language frightens me. Ditto. 3. The effectively compulsory use of name spaces unnecessarily complicates XML parsers and processors. One of the advantages of architecture-like approaches is that parsers and processors need not be aware of them because they don't modify the basic syntax of documents. The specter of qualified names becoming part of the base XML language frightens me. Bravo! Peter Jones WebDev Technical Editor Wrox Press mailto:peterj@w... *************** Wrox Press UK Ltd. http://www.wrox.co.uk Tel 44 121 706 6826 Fax 44 121 706 2967 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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