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• Subject: RE: Registered Namespace prefixes
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:16:56 -0500
• In-reply-to: <B885BEDCB3664E4AB1C72F1D85CB29F804B54D58@R...>

dareo@m... (Dare Obasanjo) writes:
>Namespace prefixes are a syntactic shortcut that should not have been
>blessed with being a [property] in the XML Infoset let alone something
>as bass-ackwards as elevating some of them to having "registered"
>status. I'd never advice anyone I know to participate in such a
>venture.

If URIs weren't so overloaded, I might agree.  Since I spend far too
much time advising people when URIs are URLs and when they are just
identifiers, I can't say I find any value in the destination of the
shortcut.  

I'll take the prefixes only at this point.

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Simon St.Laurent
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