From your article:
"Note that XML namespaces are used to provide a namespace for the metadata vocabulary." I notice from your example that they are using Qnames for attribute values. It worries me that yet again a W3C WG is flagrantly ignoring the W3C's own recommendations - such as the SOAP designers - by seemingly not actually reading the namespace specification. "Who cares that section 1 of the namespaces specification says that XML namespaces only apply to element tags and attribute names; let's just pick a section we like, and ignore the rest of the specification. Guess someone else has to sort out the mess[1]" - effbot [2]
From your article:
"I think we're going to need namespacing to make general-purpose semantic Web processors work correctly..." Namespacing is great - there are only two problems: 1) It is only valid in properly served XHTML (which only 10% of the web can see [3]) 2) Qnames should not be used as attribute values - this only helps BREAK semantic Web processors. What a mess. Friendly, Noah :) [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/qnameids-2002-04-30 [2] http://effbot.org/zone/elementsoap-3.htm [3] http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml -- "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
