Hi,

Am Freitag, den 07.12.2007, 12:02 +0100 schrieb Marcel Reutegger:
> > Yes, the prefix is not stable - which has its pros and cons. But from an
> > application point of view (which is what we have in case of using script
> > paths), these prefixes should stay stable - Building an application
> > adapting to prefix changes is close to impossible
> 
> why is that? the application simply has to set prefix to uri mappings on its 
> session for the prefixes it uses.

Which is what we do and thus have "stable" prefixes, right ?

> > - of course we could
> > use the uri as the path element instead of prefix - but I am sure, this
> > is not very user friendly ...
> 
> my concern is just that this turns a prefix into a local name, which seems 
> wrong.

This is kind of correct. On the other hand IIUIC namespacing is for
ordering and collision prevention, which is what we also do here.

>  but on the other hand, how will ever change a prefix?

Exactly.

Regards
Felix

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