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David Brownell scripsit: > I didn't see the words "deserve to lose" in the spec. What I > saw was a statement that if you use namespaces (TBS) your docs > might need to change. The XML 1.0 spec has not been revised > (incompatibly) to require conformance to the namespace spec. It says: # [A]uthors should not use the colon in XML names except as part of # name-space experiments[.] So there is a SHOULD NOT prohibition against bogus colons of the first kind (non-namespace). Bogus colons of the second kind (namespace experiments) may indeed have to be changed, but why must the DOM support non-W3 namespace experiments? The uses of colons in namespaces are now prescribed, and other uses are proscribed. > In general, my background makes me believe that incompatible > changes to foundational specs (e.g. XML 1.0) are, as a rule, > pure unadulterated evil. > > One never quite knows what could get broken by such changes ... > though it's usually "someone else's software" not your own. > Now there's a dynamic to think about. You're right in general. But the XML Rec goes to some pains to say that uses of : are either deprecated or may have to be changed, putting people on notice pending the namespace Rec. > Didn't namespaces break architectural forms compatibility? > Minimally the <?IS10744:arch ...?> PI doesn't conform. The alternative form <?IS10744 arch ...?> works fine; I'll get the XAF maintainers to add support for it. (Bill?) > And aren't there SGML applications using colons as name > characters? Perhaps permitting such SGML systems to > migrate to XML isn't "really important" any more. Are colons NAMESTRT characters in the reference concrete syntax? -- John Cowan cowan@c... e'osai ko sarji la lojban. 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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