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At 00:48 6/02/1999 , hpyle@a... wrote: | Paul Prescod wrote, | > I don't think that "average developers" need to worry about namespaces. | ... | > If you are building a | > typical one-organization application then what are you doing with "other | > people's tags" in your documents? | | Maybe my perspective is a little warped. I'm working on healthcare | applications in the UK - interoperability will (sometime) become a big | deal. :-) Well, let me put it like this then: You are working out a structured interchange format. If you want structure, you'll need a DTD, otherwise there is absolutely no way of validating that you have got correct data. If you have a DTD, then namespaces are irrelevant: they simply don't work together in any meaningful way. Or to put it another way: allowing arbitrary nesting of someone else's tags doesn't achieve anything. You still have to know what to do with them when you receive them. In summary: get stuck into writing a DTD, and ignore this whole "namespaces" mess ... J ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@s... "Beyond the Idea" ACN 081 019 623 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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