RE: [xml-dev] Default namespaces are *evil*! (RE: [xml-dev] Global/Local attributes)

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

If there are no default namespaces then there is no problem #2. If an
element/attribute isn't prefixed then there is no ambiguity; It has no
namespace name. 

What have I missed? 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kian-Tat Lim [mailto:ktl@ktlim.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 12:02 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Default namespaces are *evil*! (RE: 
> [xml-dev] Global/Local attributes)
> 
> 
> Aaron Skonnard wrote:
> > And this madness [of attribute rule vs. element rule for unprefixed 
> > names] would go away with the death of default namespaces.
> 
> That solves one problem, but not the other.
> 
> The problems are:
> 
> 1) Without surrounding context, it is not possible to 
> determine whether an unprefixed name belongs to no namespace 
> or to the default namespace.
> 
> 2) There are two kinds of names: names belonging to no 
> namespace and names belonging to a namespace.
> 
> Killing default namespaces only takes care of problem #1.
> 
> Killing "no namespace" names in namespaced documents takes 
> care of both problems simultaneously.
> 
> Default namespaces are not evil; they are just a syntactic 
> shorthand or minimization.  No-namespace names are the true evil.
> 
> -- 
> Kian-Tat Lim, ktl@ktlim.com, UTF-7: +Z5de+pBU-
> 
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