Re: [xml-dev] To namespace or not to Namespace ....

From
Rick Yorgason <>
To
Michael Kay <>
Date
2010-04-09T21:53:18Z
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Re: [xml-dev] To namespace or not to Namespace ....
Michael Kay wrote:
> I agree, it's much easier to say what's wrong with the current design than
> to propose something better. Though I don't think it would be hard to design
> something better if backwards compatibility were not a constraint.

I'm still not convinced we need to forfeit backwards compatibility to 
improve namespaces :)

http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/201004/msg00003.html

(Although, since I started lurking, I've realized that in addition to 
what I wrote in my proposal, it should also allow local names, the same 
way you can use "using std::cout" in C++.)

-Rick-