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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>, XMLDev list <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 07:45:37 -0800
At 09:37 AM 12/16/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
> People
>will get really surprising results if
>
> {"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "a", ""}
>
>equals()
>
> {"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "a", "html"}
This leads back to the main point. In a namespace-oblivious world, it
is nuts to claim that these are the same thing. In a namespace-sensitive
world, it is nuts to claim that they're not. The two world-views are
deeply incompatible.
And the namespace-oblivious world is just no longer interesting.
-Tim
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