Re: [xml-dev] To namespace or not to Namespace ....

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

On 7 April 2010 21:38, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > I just hope people will actually evaluate the costs of using namespaces
>> > before automatically sticking them on everything.
>>
>> You can't go far wrong if:
>>
>> - You pick a namespace that will never change: don't use dates, or
>> words like 'proposed' or 'beta', or embed version information
>> - You always use a prefix
>> - You tell the team to always use an XML parser to read the XML, and
>> an XML writer to serialise the XML, and never ever process XML as a
>> string
>
>
> Ha!  Just Ha!
>
> You probably need to add about 100 items to your list.

Come on then, list them, it all helps.



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