Re: [xml-dev] namespaces redux

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

On 16/10/2012 11:47, Andrew Welch wrote:
> whereas they could just do:
>
> xmlns:c="config"

That would be my preference too, except unfortunately it's explicitly
deprecated and applications are theoretically allowed to reject it
(although I know of none that do). Since that unfortunate decision was
taken (or imposed some might say:-) I've tended to use "data:,config" so
that it is an absolute URI, just to be safe.

David

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