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At 08:58 PM 2/7/99 -0500, Borden, Jonathan wrote: > Is the problem here the content of the namespace spec or the way it is >written? It seems to me that people who feel that the spec is a compromise, >or wish the spec specified something different, are unhappy. If you really >don't understand the spec, how can you claim it is a ramshackle compromise? >I suspect that you understand it and don't like it. > > The problem doesn't appear to be the way the spec is written and a >professional writer won't solve that problem. I can claim that it is a ramshackle compromise because I was witness to its creation. The process stunk to high heaven. The result is an awful compromise, and not because I don't like it. As I have said before, the "Namespaces in XML" spec would have more properly been named "Namespaces in RDF". Then I might be able to understand it. It is not the words in the spec that I do not understand. It is that I cannot fathom the logic that holds it together. For example, an appendix purports to describe a fictional XML namespace in which there exist "global" attributes which *cannot* be found in XML -- I defy you to locate a *global* attribute in XML. Or how about names that do not exist in any namespace? Is there an XML namespace or not? Sure, there are parts of the spec that I do not like. And I have done what I could to effect change. But the spec as a whole is not something that I can explain, justify and motivate. Regards, Murray Murray Maloney, Esq. Phone: (905) 509-9120 Muzmo Communication Inc. Fax: (905) 509-8637 671 Cowan Circle Email: murray@m... Pickering, Ontario Email: murray@y... Canada, L1W 3K6 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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