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On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 19:59 -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...> wrote: > > > I'm increasingly of the opinion that XML "jumped the shark" with the > > XML Namespaces specification. > > Namespaces was at least the nose of the shark. I think we really > should have insisted that prefixes not be able to be bound to more > than one URI in the same document. There are a lot of problems with the namespace spec. I don't think that particular restriction would be helpful, because it would complicate reuse of document fragments. But, lack of consensus at the time reflected lack of implementation experience -- namespaces should have been put on hold for a couple of years at least. > Schemas are bad, but ignorable. I think XSD has some OK parts, and, like namespaces, meets some real needs... while causing lots of problems of its own. > > I remain convinced, though, that the single biggest mistake was DOM. +1 here, totally agree. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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