Interesting
idea. This is likely something
that has to be addressed in an Xml track. I am not sure that HTML-5 is
even an Xml track?
For a number
of use cases I have seen
namespaces work. They are integrated in most Xml processors.
So they are there already for free.
But how well
they address all use cases I
do not know. I would be interested to hear about use cases where Xml
namespaces
fail and rough sketches of better technologies.
Jim
From: Michael
Kay [mailto:mike@saxonica.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July
08, 2009
1:55 PM
To: 'Kurt Cagle'; 'Jim
Tivy'
Cc: 'XML Developers
List'
Subject: RE: [xml-dev]
XHTML 2
Working Group won't be renewed?
> There's
supposed to be an extensibility workshop in September at one of the
F2Fs where
namespaces in general will be hashed out - I plan to be monitoring that
one
carefully, as I suspect that there will be a move to "fix" namespaces
in a way that will have long term negative repercussions for the XML
community.
Let's
approach this
positively. XML namespaces are a pretty awful piece of design. Perhaps
this is an opportunity to revisit the requirement and do something a
bit more
elegant.
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
