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- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- To: 'XML-Dev Mailing list' <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:21:34 -0700
> > What kind of application can handle this?
>
> IE5.0 and Office 2000 allow this with HTML, VML and your own custom
> markup.
Very specific kind of application.
> > I'm not saying namespaces are useless, simply that many people don't
> > need them.
> >
>
> Sigh :-( Why do we always imagine only people using markup.
> Applications need it more then people do.
I'm not assuming people. Again, I've been processing SGML/XML in
very advanced applications for over 10 years, and I didn't have
namespaces during that time.
Namespaces are convenient *for some things*, but a lot of usages are
gratuitous.
> On a side note, I still do not understand what the objection to
> namespaces are. Seems to be natural if you came from the object
> oriented crowd, prefixes are natural.
Hey, I used to do alpha-renaming in lisp too.... but they're different
beasts.
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