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Paul Prescod wrote: > > Rick Jelliffe wrote: > > > > It seems clear that the HTML team have some mental concept of namespaces > > which exists independently of what the W3C specification actually > > allows. > > I think that you are putting the blame in the wrong place. A quick > perusal of this forum suggests that the namespace editors disagree on > what the namespace specification "really means". It seems to me that the > specification has proven too general, too flexible and has been shown to > depend too much on mystical shared understanding of a "reasonable > namespace" that turns out not to be shared. The namespaces spec did sort of get rushed through at the last minute, with a PR that said "this is how it'll be, don't bother sending any comments unless you can prove the sky is falling". As of course it could not be. Perhaps a lot of the current problems with XHTML map to such issues. Rush one spec through with some open issues, and then watch the issues multiply as time goes by. - Dave 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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