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I'd be more interested in someone who can point out the the difficulty
caused by namespaces in XML that don't boil down to philosophical or
aesthetic arguments.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:50 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] namespace reprise
>
>
> Just a classic moment from 1999 that we might all do well to remember:
> ----------------------------------------------
> There is a difference between easy and understandable. I am
> one of the folks that feels information management can always
> be made easier; "Namespaces in XML" I feel makes things
> harder overall.
>
> True genius is being able to make complex things simple so it
> is very hard for me to understand how "Namespaces in XML" got
> to be the way it is considering the editors and WG members
> are all well-respected, intelligent people. Sometimes smart
> people get lazy in trying to build solutions that the next
> generation of programmers and developers can first understand
> and then build upon. I think that "Namespaces in XML"
> totally ignores the very important goal of making XML an
> architecture that the next generation can understand and build upon.
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> If there's anyone who doubts that we've been stuck in an
> endless circle for years now, this is probably the classic
> vitriolic post. No, I didn't write it. Tyler Baker did.
>
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/654680
Tyler is clearly smarter than I am, since he appears to have moved on.
I'd be curious to hear if anyone thinks there are aspects of Namespaces
in XML that have problems which we haven't discussed yet. I suspect
that we've been over the minefield quite thoroughly.
(And yes, I've been revisiting the archives lately - differences in
perspective, and lacks of difference are pretty interesting.)
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http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is
another possibility altogether
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