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On Tuesday 18 February 2003 12:13 pm, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > >DO namespaces help? Should the editor > >be namespace-aware? > > I'm not aware of too many cases where namespaces matter in the creation > of marked-up information. The only case I can think of where they're > worth the effort is in mixing various W3C vocabularies for browsers - > XHTML, SVG, SMIL, MathML, etc. This is why I cannot see any reason in making them "special" from a syntax perspective. Ultimately, they solve few problems that can't be solved by a variety of means, and choosing namespaces as the mechanism effectively is a form of tight-binding to special keys (URI's).
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