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At 09:37 AM 7/25/2002 -0800, Tim Bray wrote: >That granted, when actual programmers sit down to write actual code that >deals with actual namespace-labeled markup, the implementions are >straightforward and interoperate well, I have yet to hear a *single* story >of an actual implementation problem caused by the URIness of namespace names. I think you must encounter a different group of "actual programmers" than I do. For a brief description of the kinds of problems I've heard in the field (at conferences and an ACM tutorial), see: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200207/msg00965.html Sadly, this is more than mere "angst", but it's probably what I deserve for attempting to present an explanation of namespaces in more than one minute but less than a day. (Less than an hour, in one case.) These problems are easier when the actual programmers sit in the same room, perhaps, but I have a hard time recommending that as a general solution. Simon St.Laurent "Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue
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