On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 20:26 +0000, Frans Englich wrote: > On Friday 28 January 2005 20:09, Uche Ogbuji wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 16:50 +0000, Frans Englich wrote: > > > This is my opinion. > > > > > > If I were to design XBEL from the ground up I would have put it in a > > > namespace. Doing it at this point would be done in the name of somekind > > > of "XML-correctness". While it itches to suggest it, I don't think it > > > justifies all the compatibility havoc it creates. > > > > Namespaces don't really have anything to do with XML correctness. > > What do you mean by "XML correctness"? :)
That's easy. Strict conformance to the XML 1.0 specification, Third Edition in particular. The specification defines conformance criteria. > > I > > think this is a popular misconception. Namespaces are meant to solve a > > particular problem in XML. Many argue it makes a hash of the solution > > (I'm somewhat in the middle), but I think everyone would agree that if > > you don't have the problem, there is no need to complicate things by > > using namespaces. > > I stay neutral, but have a question: in what situation should namespaces then > be used? E.g, why is XHTML in a namespaces? Because it may be combined with > other vocabularies? Any other reason? That is the *only* reason. believe me. I've been in all the wars. And even that reasoning has been widely debated. I've never seen a single application of XBEL embedded in another vocabulary. Even if I had, I would advocate namespace-free for an XBEL- only document, with an namespace only to be used in embedded cases. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html Introducing the Amara XML Toolkit - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/01/19/amara.html Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286 Querying WordNet as XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think29.html Manage XML collections with XAPI - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xapi.html Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html Packaging XSLT lookup tables as EXSLT functions - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook2.html _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig