Re: [xml-dev] A proposal for application level XML 'namespaces'

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Pete Cordell scripsit:

> Thanks for the comment John.  Did you mean to send it off-line?  It would 
> be interesting to hear others' thoughts on it.

No, just an accident.  I've rerouted back to xml-dev.

> Regarding the comment, I think the main difference is that it is all in 
> the application layer rather than involving a layer violation that people 
> worry about.
>
> I couldn't see how to make a solution backwards compatible with existing 
> XML namespaces without it actually being XML namespaces, and so I  
> opportunistically concluded that backwards compatibility was out of scope 
> :-)

Well, MicroXML uses namespace syntax (except for QNames in element names,
which are not allowed), but puts the information in the application layer.
MicroLark provides namespace functions as a convenience, but does not
hide xmlns and xmlns:* attributes.

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