Re: [xml-dev] Pragmatic namespaces

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@Sun.COM>]

On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:55 PM, Micah Dubinko wrote:

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> On Aug 4, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
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>> Why not just make a clean break with namespaces and
>> do extensibility with java-style dot-separated pathnames?
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> OK, forgive me for being slow. Could you draw me a picture of what  
> this might look like?

If I wanted to publish a little XML vocabulary for donkey genetics,  
all the elements would have names like  <org.tbray.donkeys.father> and  
<org.tbray.donkeys.birth-date> and so on.  And if this were being used  
by IETF when we did atom, the tags would be like <org.ietf.atom.feed>  
and <org.ietf.atom.entry>.  That's all.  Distributed extensibility,  
and you can mix & match without asking anyone. -T