• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: David Megginson <david@m...>, XMLDev list <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 07:45:37 -0800

At 09:37 AM 12/16/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>  People
>will get really surprising results if 
>
>  {"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "a", ""}
>
>equals()
>
>  {"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "a", "html"}

This leads back to the main point.  In a namespace-oblivious world, it
is nuts to claim that these are the same thing.  In a namespace-sensitive
world, it is nuts to claim that they're not.  The two world-views are 
deeply incompatible.

And the namespace-oblivious world is just no longer interesting.

-Tim

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