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• Subject: Re: Registered namespace prefixes
• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:30:58 -0500
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John Cowan writes:

 > > Has anyone come up with an alternate proposal that allows you to
 > > mix and match a document with elements that come from distributed
 > > creators?
 > 
 > Well, there was the pre-release version of namespaces, which
 > declared them using PIs in the prolog, after the XML declaration,
 > before the DOCTYPE.

It was axed by the W3C because of concerns about using XHTML inside
legacy (v.3 and 4) browsers, where "<?" could cause display problems.


All the best,


David

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