Hello Ian
Ian Hickson wrote:
I'm definitely against any in-page indirection mechanism, because we have
seen with XML Namespaces (and with RDFa) that prefixes are simply a huge
source of problems.
They are indeed, XML namespaces fixed one problem calling different
things by the same name but they created another problem of calling
the same thing by different names, Prefixes are not themselves bad,
misunderstood or any kind of indirection mechanism, they are just short
hand urls, they are actually quite intuitive if used correctly. RDFa Is
currently trying to solve its problems with xmlns, is just a minor
design flaw, xmlns is used for structure not content and they realize
that issue.
Best wishes
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Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/
