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Michael Kay wrote: > Just look at the xsl-list archives and see the proportion of user problems > that are caused by namespaces. Most of the issues you bring up in your (excellent) list are however problems that are faced by and large not by end-users trying to use namespaces but rather by specification and (lower-level) tool makers. I think Doug's statement was more from the user point of view. He's used namespaces and hasn't found them to be a pain. I think the question he's asking, and I've been having the same for quite a long while, is why do people who are far from having even scratched the (genuine) architectural mess underlying namespaces do find namespaces so hard to use nevertheless? I know that as a spec and tools writer I've cursed namespaces by all the divinities in all the pantheons that I could summon, but as a user I've always simply luv'd 'em. > Or, if you were able, look at the minutes of any W3C working group and see > the proportion of its effort that goes into dealing with the complexities > caused by namespaces. This depends largely on the WG, I know a bunch of them that only have namespace problems once a year when a newbie joins and thinks s/he knows all about XML without having touched one of the specs :) -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/
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