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Keith W. Boone scripsit:
> 1. Inheritance. Namespace declarations in an element impose themselves
> upon the children without regard to whether those children want and/or need
> them. When I put an attribute on an element, I mean for it to apply only to
> that element.
'When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful
tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor
less.'
> 2. Modelling. Yeah, there's the InfoSet, then there's the DOM, and finally
> the parsing APIs. Can any two agree on how exactly to represent the
> namespace data?
The DOM preceded the Infoset and had to deal with legacy issues plus the
(IMHO) will-o-the-wisp of a DOM-based XML editor.
> 3. Purpose. What problem does it solve? Certainly not validation of
> documents which use multiple schemas. At the time of XML Namespace
> publication, XML Schemas were just barely out of the gate of the standards
> development process. So we had namespaces which would "allow" reuse of
> different schemas, but no way to validate a document using more than one.
Well, we sure have a way now.
--
John Cowan
jcowan@reutershealth.com
I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
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