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   Re: [xml-dev] Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: [xml-dev] Un-ask the

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On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, John Cowan wrote:

> Thomas B. Passin scripsit:
> 
> > So the default namespace allows you to convert a document to having a
> > namespace with minimal pain and breakage.  If you look at it that way, it is
> > a means for handling legacy markup, and no one has to use it for new work.
> 
> Well, that is one application of the default namespace.  But I would get
> very tired of creating new mono-namespace (or nearly so) documents
> without this particular minimization.
> 

Amen to that. I would hate to have to update all my XHTML files with
a prefix on every single tag, no matter if the prefix were only one letter 
long.

-- 
J. David Eisenberg  http://catcode.com/





 

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