Re: [xml-dev] misprocessing namespaces (was Re: [xml-dev] There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone)

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

At 12:52 PM 30/01/02 -0500, Mike Champion wrote:
>>Weirder, actually. Like:
>><test http://foo.com/bar/baz="value"; />
>
>What's weird about that (other than the http:// ...and all the 
>baggage that drags along with it)?  I thought terseness was not a 
>consideration for XML?  

Allowing "/" as a name-char will certainly complicate parsers.

Aside from that, it's certainly admirably simple. -Tim