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I used to think everyone that uses XML today must be using namespaces until I took a closer look around and noticed this was just how I used XML. For example anyone using RSS 0.9x doesn't use namespaces (then again some of them aren't aren't even really using XML but I digress) similarly I've seen quite a few of widespread config and documentation file formats that don't use namespaces either. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Bradford [mailto:bradford@d...] Sent: Mon 9/9/2002 10:08 AM To: G. Ken Holman Cc: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: Shouldn't colon be reserved? On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 03:34 AM, G. Ken Holman wrote: > XML-based applications are either namespace-aware or not, as described > in the namespaces Recommendation. But let's be honest. Very few applications, perhaps only those that have lived in a vacuum since 1997, can get by without having to be namespace aware. Just about anything that a person might actually want to *do* with or to a document requires namespaces. > Layering is good. Normally I would wholeheartedly agree, but in the case of XML namespaces, the way that it is layered creates semantic ambiguity to non-namespaced processors and to DTD-based validation, which has to be addressed by a developer rather carefully. Anyway, it's all Mike Champion's fault. -- Tom Bradford - CTO - The dbXML Group - http://www.dbxml.com Apache Xindice (XML Database) - http://xml.apache.org/xindice Labrador (Web Services Hub) - http://www.notdotnet.org/labrador ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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