• From: uche.ogbuji@f...
• To: "Hunter, David" <dhunter@M...>
• Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 13:53:23 -0700

> > And the namespace-oblivious world is just no longer interesting.
> > 
> > -Tim
> 
> Interesting or not, and that depends on point of view :-), I'm not convinced
> that the namespace-oblivious world is going to go away.  Ever.  If one wants
> to use XML only in the context of one's own application, namespaces aren't
> useful or needed.  One of the reasons XML is so great is that you don't
> *need* a DTD to process XML documents - are we just going to replace the DTD
> with namespaces, and require that all XML documents use namespaces of some
> sort?

Is it not sufficient for the namespace-oblivious world to simply use SAX 1.0?

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