Re: [xml-dev] namespaces redux (was: Re: [xml-dev] [XML Schema] Here's h

["Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>]

Original Message From: "Andrew Welch"
> On 16 October 2012 09:50, Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com> wrote:
>> For someone creating their own markup, unless there is some reason that 
>> they
>> can't such as backwards compatibility, I would suggest doing:
>>
>> <com.example.mySchema.myRoot   myAttribute="blah">
>>    <myElement  myQName="com.example.mySchema.name">
>>        blah
>>    </myElement>
>> </com.example.mySchema.myRoot>
>
> If you are just 'prefixing' the root element, then it would suffer
> from the cut-and-paste-from-the-middle issue that a default namespace
> change on the root element suffers from?


I wouldn't claim it to be THE general solution, but I think it covers a 
sufficient number of use-cases that's it's worth a vocabulary designer 
looking at before considering me elaborate schemes.

That said, I don't think you'd have to be that smart to get around the 
cut-and-paste-from-the-middle problem.

Pete Cordell
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