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• Subject: Re: Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:55:34 -0500
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• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:30 am, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> QNames in attribute values and element content are a huge mess and a
> big mistake. I've seen them complexify virtually every significant
> system I've worked on that had to process arbitrary XML documents.
> They were a problem for JDOM. They were a problem for XInclude. They
> were a problem when using DOM and SAX. They make XML significantly
> more complex.

I'd make that claim of namespaces in general....

namespaces delenda est!

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