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I used to think everyone that uses XML today must be using namespaces until I took a closer look around and noticed this was just how I used XML. For example anyone using RSS 0.9x doesn't use namespaces (then again some of them aren't aren't even really using XML but I digress) similarly I've seen quite a few of widespread config and documentation file formats that don't use namespaces either.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Bradford [mailto:bradford@dbxmlgroup.com]
Sent: Mon 9/9/2002 10:08 AM
To: G. Ken Holman
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Shouldn't colon be reserved?
On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 03:34 AM, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> XML-based applications are either namespace-aware or not, as described
> in the namespaces Recommendation.
But let's be honest. Very few applications, perhaps only those that
have lived in a vacuum since 1997, can get by without having to be
namespace aware. Just about anything that a person might actually want
to *do* with or to a document requires namespaces.
> Layering is good.
Normally I would wholeheartedly agree, but in the case of XML
namespaces, the way that it is layered creates semantic ambiguity to
non-namespaced processors and to DTD-based validation, which has to be
addressed by a developer rather carefully.
Anyway, it's all Mike Champion's fault.
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