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Absolutely, see my second sentence: "For a number of use cases I have
seen namespaces work. They are integrated in most Xml p As well, we can only focus on so many
things and learn so many things and the lead time on tools supporting new
technolgies is 5 years or more for any kind of saturation. But at some level, I applaud the question
- can we do better? From: COUTHURES Alain
[mailto:alain.couthures@agencexml.com] Even though it's always
good to think about how to improve namespaces, how long would we have to wait
for such a new mechanism to be widely available ? Don't we need solutions for
today ? For a number of use cases
I have seen namespaces work. They are integrated in most Xml p 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] > 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, |