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   Re: The Peace Process: DOM and namespaces...

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  • From: Tyler Baker <tyler@infinet.com>
  • To: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:18:43 -0500

Andrew Layman wrote:

> Don Park suggests that we could "establish a business practice requiring all
> URI used as namespace name to
> not contain any illegal XML name characters."  That rules out "/", thereby
> limiting namespaces to second-tier domain names and similar unsegmented
> names. That goes against the desire for unlimited scalability and the goal
> to allow _anyone_ to create namespace names as they need to.

Interesting that the word scalability is used here.  The added complexity namespaces will add
to IS infrastructure I think will cause scalability problems in terms of managing all of this
data in a clean way.

Tyler


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