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• Subject: RE: First XML-1.1 Working Draft publicly available
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:04:56 -0000
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• In-reply-to: <20011213103517.L9322@r...>
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>   XML 1.1
>   W3C Working Draft 13 December 2001
>
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/
>

It seems a shame not to take the opportunity to bring XML Namespaces into
the main XML spec. Not that I have ever been a fan of namespaces, but since
all the other important specs like InfoSet and XPath now work only with
namespace-conformant documents, it seems rather pointless to introduce an
XML 1.1 that not only continues to allow documents that aren't namespace
conformant, but even (as far as I can see) retains the timid "please don't
misuse the colon" wording of XML 1.0 second edition.

Will any vendor really want to produce an XML 1.1 parser that handles
non-namespace-conformant documents, and if so, why?

Mike Kay

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