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On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 13:31, Tim Bray wrote:
> 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
I don't have any fundamental problem with it.
I just marvel at how they could have reached that conclusion from any
experience with XML namespaces such as they are!
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Simon St.Laurent
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