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- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:08:08 -0400 (EDT)
John Cowan writes:
> I foresee problems with the SAX2 namespace feature. In particular,
> defaulting to a null separator means that some universal names
> become confusible. Thus
>
> url="http://me.net/foobar" name="scope"
> url="http://me.net/foobars" name="cope"
Agreed. I arbitrarily chose to default to the null separator for two
reasons:
1. because RDF does it, and it's the only Recommendation that has
anything to say about the specifics of concatenation; and
2. to stay out of any religious wars against which character should be
used as the separator.
The RDF concatenation does lead to nasty problems, as John suggests.
I could live with [space], if everyone promises not to flame me (it's
one character that's virtually guaranteed not to be allowed in XML
names in any future version of the spec).
All the best,
David
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