Re: [xml-dev] repercussions

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:12 AM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> He also points to a nice analogy from Mark Nottingham:
>
> http://www.mnot.net/blog/2003/12/06/qnames_are_evil
>
> It's good to confirm that issues derided as mere aesthetic blotches are
> capable of causing real problems for sophisticated tools - and users.

It is now crystal-clear that allowing qnames to escape from element & 
attribute names into content was a terrible mistake that we're now 
stuck with forever.  I struggled against this idea but lost.  -Tim