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- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
- To: gtn@ebt.com
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:46:58 +0100 (BST)
Gavin Thomas Nicol writes:
> > Let's say you are composing a document with a couple of SVG pictures, a
> > couple of XHTML tables, some mark up from your own problem domain and some
> > from another - how are you going to do that without namespaces? Almost all
> > of these are going to have element or attribute names clashes somewhere.
>
> What kind of application can handle this?
XSL formatting object processors
> My point is that the typical XML application doesn't *need* to handle the
> example you gave.... and if it *does* the vocabularly will be well-enough
> understood that the prefix is unnecessary.
and if there are name clashes? try using MathML with almost any other
DTD - it has an element called <list> :-}
> I'm not saying namespaces are useless, simply that many people don't
> need them.
"many" is almost a qualitative judgement...
sebastian
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