Mark Nottingham wrote:
My .02, FWIW, and off the top of my head;
I think this is a well-intentioned effort, but at the wrong end of the
process. The market (i.e., users and implementors) should have a go at
sorting out at what's common/prevalent enough to merit this sort of
thing; having a co-ordinated namespace will lead to the problem of
what to lump into it, how to version individual extensions within it,
etc.
In other words, some of the benefits of Namespaces in XML -- e.g.,
loose coordination, well-insulated name spaces, ability to change
namespace without changing local name to effect versioning -- will be
lost, all for the sake of saving a few characters. Not worth it, IMO.
-1 to ACE, for the very same reasons.
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Thomas Broyer
