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/ Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> was heard to say:
| 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.
QNames in content are a disaster, there's no doubt about that. QNames
for element and attribute names are...ugly, but seem like a more
manageable problem.
| I struggled against this idea but lost. -Tim
I assert that I did to, and I went looking for the minutes where I did
so, but I can't seem to find them in the archives. C'est la vie.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | 'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot
http://nwalsh.com/ | have done that'--says my pride, and remains
| adamant. At last--memory yields.--Nietzsche
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