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I understand the teleological canons of the W3C. I just don't buy it. At the end of the day, I have to work out practical solutions using the most common technologies. Namespaces are useful so on occasion, I use them. That doesn't mean they belong in the syntax core except insofar as to note that uses of colons are dangerous given other system specifications. URIs aren't integral to anything except the "information space" definition of "the web". They marry location systems to identification systems. It's a nice hack but not a necessity for non-web systems. Not broke. Don't fix. It just causes more churn. len -----Original Message----- From: Arjun Ray [mailto:aray@n...] Yes. But namespaces aren't even needed for aggregation either. (That argument was destroyed on the XML-SIG list, but conveniently the archive will remain tucked away from public view.) | Namespaces don't belong at the lowest level. They aren't XML; they are | URIs. A nice argument, except that the counterargument, that URIs are integral to XML, will emerge presently, and be assimilated into W3C canon. (It's another teleological imperative.)
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