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At 10:20 PM 1/4/99 -0500, Chris Maden wrote: >[Simon St.Laurent] >> I can understand the first part just fine. But why bar colons from >> every other use of Name in the spec? > >Future use. The application of namespaces to entities isn't fully >understood right now, but if colons in entity names are declared >meaningless now, then any future attempt to attach meaning later will >be a disaster. It's the same reason that colons in names (except >xml:lang and xml:space) were declared to be reserved for experimental >use in XML 1.0. Glad to hear that there's a good reason. Might be smart to put that explicitly into the final recommendation as well, assuming namespaces make it to that stage. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Cookies Sharing Bandwidth Building XML Applications (February) http://www.simonstl.com 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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