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Re: [xml-dev] Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames

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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames
From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:55:34 -0500
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Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
References: <f5b1yfptrsa.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <p04330105b89035eaf2ab@[192.168.254.4]>

On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:30 am, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> QNames in attribute values and element content are a huge mess and a
> big mistake. I've seen them complexify virtually every significant
> system I've worked on that had to process arbitrary XML documents.
> They were a problem for JDOM. They were a problem for XInclude. They
> were a problem when using DOM and SAX. They make XML significantly
> more complex.

I'd make that claim of namespaces in general....

namespaces delenda est!

References:
- Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames
  - From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- Re: [xml-dev] Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames
  - From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>

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