Even though it's always good to think about how to improve namespaces, 
how long would we have to wait for such a new mechanism to be widely 
available ? Don't we need solutions for today ?

-Alain

Jim Tivy a écrit :
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> Interesting idea. This is likely something that has to be addressed in 
> an Xml track.  I am not sure that HTML-5 is even an Xml track?
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> For a number of use cases I have seen namespaces work.  They are 
> integrated in most Xml processors.  So they are there already for free.
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> But how well they address all use cases I do not know.  I would be 
> interested to hear about use cases where Xml namespaces fail and rough 
> sketches of better technologies.
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> *From:* Michael Kay [mailto:mike@s...]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:55 PM
> *To:* 'Kurt Cagle'; 'Jim Tivy'
> *Cc:* 'XML Developers List'
> *Subject:* RE: [xml-dev] XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
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>  > There's supposed to be an extensibility workshop in September at 
> one of the F2Fs where namespaces in general will be hashed out - I 
> plan to be monitoring that one carefully, as I suspect that there will 
> be a move to "fix" namespaces in a way that will have long term 
> negative repercussions for the XML community. 
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> Let's approach this positively. XML namespaces are a pretty awful 
> piece of design. Perhaps this is an opportunity to revisit the 
> requirement and do something a bit more elegant.
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> Regards,
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> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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