Hello Tantek, I think Ian may have meant... what about using (for Microformats) namespaces with pre-defined (and never changing) namespace prefixes (like in Java and Perl), instead of variable namespace prefixes (like in XML).
See ya On 5/1/07, Tantek Çelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/1/07 1:01 AM, "Ian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/05/2007 07:26, Tantek Çelik wrote: >> It's been tried by numerous groups, before microformats, and after. It's >> even been tried in the context of RSS and RDF, and in practice people write >> scrapers that look for namespace prefixes as if they are part of the element >> name, not as mere shorthands for namespace URIs. > > Isn't this a narrow view of namespaces, i.e. the XML viewpoint. There > are many types of non-URI/QName namespacing mechanisms such as Java > package name conventions, Perl module conventions etc. Are those > offtopic too? This is why I precisely said (in the paragraph that was not quoted), with emphasis added: "Namespaced **content** on the Web has failed." AFAIK, Java package name conventions, Perl module conventions are *not* considered *content* that is served on the web. They're code. And they're not served, they're executed server-side. Namespaced **content** has failed because it encourages proprietary siloization of data, rather than interoperability. Namespaces perform a very different function in code (with different needs), despite the cosmetic similarities (use of ":" etc.). >> If you want to carry on a theoretical discussion of namespaces, please do so >> elsewhere, for in practice, discussing them is a waste of time, and >> off-topic for microformats lists. > > Apologies for this post. If the answer to the above is yes then this > will be the last from me on this topic. Why would a discussion of namespaced *code* be *on* topic? How is it relevant to microformats? At a minimum, it would be more appropriate for the microformats-dev list than the microformats-discuss list, but even then I fail to see how it is germane to the domain. Tantek
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