Re: [xml-dev] namespaces redux

[Manos Batsis <manos_lists@geekologue.com>]

On 10/16/2012 12:42 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
>
>> As much as I agree with you about the evil of QNames in content, I
>> don't really think it was the job of the Namespaces in XML spec to
>> prevent this.
>
> It was absolutely the job of the Namespaces in XML spec to get this
> right, and it failed dismally.

+1 darn it. The NS spec left some pretty reasonable expectations to be 
handled by the app level, which doesn't really work if the world does 
not follow along.

Cheers,

Manos