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

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 21:53:57 +0100
"Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:

> > I've heard that namespaces is a bad design several times, but 
> > I cannot understand why it's a bad design, simply because I 
> > don't know what a good design is. Namespaces is all I know, I 
> > have no reason to believe it's a bad design unless someone 
> > point me to a good design, are there any?
> 
> I agree, it's much easier to say what's wrong with the current design
> than to propose something better. Though I don't think it would be
> hard to design something better if backwards compatibility were not a
> constraint.


Would an easy way to get from 'old' to new suffice?
Some xslt/Java/C transform of an instance which produces the new
version?

I don't think the backwards compatibility 'requirement' will
allow a better design.



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