Re: [xml-dev] misprocessing namespaces (was Re: [xml-dev] There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone)

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Mike Champion <>
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The Deviants <>
Date
2002-01-31T01:35:51Z
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Re: [xml-dev] misprocessing namespaces (was Re: [xml-dev] There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone)
1/30/2002 7:58:48 PM, "Jonathan Borden" <> wrote:

>
>No seriously, the reason it doesn't matter is because XML Namespaces 
are a
>done deal. All this discussion would have been fine when the rec was 
under
>development,

I see some variant of Clean Namespaces as a potential usage guideline 
for a set of users that don't need the power (and hassles) of W3C 
Namespaces, not a counter-proposal to the standard.  I personally 
would disagree with using a ':' in a name except as a prefix 
delimiter.  As you say, that fails the IE5 test.  Case closed. 


> hardly anyone is working with DTDs?.

That is not my impression, FWIW.  "Out of fashion at the W3C" is not 
the same as "dead."