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XML isn't HTML. I'd have favored having XHTML force users to explicitly namespace their documents so they KNOW they aren't just writing HTML with a funky new attribute at the top of the document.
Tools could even have been developed to do this automatically(inject namespaces and prefixes into unnamespaced documents). Tools which would have been trivial to write I might add.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@nag.co.uk]
Sent: Fri 8/2/2002 7:27 AM
To: seairth@seairth.com
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Global/Local attributes
> What is the point of having the default namespace?
using short prefixes is not very interesting to machines, but sometimes
useful for humans. "" is particulary good for that and as Thomas (I
think) said it's useful as a way of converting legacy documents (or
legacy authors).
It's a lot easier to tell people to stick xmlns="lkhhglhgl" at the top
of their XHTML file but then write something that looks basically like
html than to tell people to write
<xhtml:a href="..." or <xhtml:a xhtml:href="..."
all over the place. It doesn't make much difference to the browser
whether "" or "xhtml:" is used but if you are writing the input by hand
it does make a difference.
David
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