Absolutely, see my second sentence:

 

"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."

 

As well, we can only focus on so many things and learn so many things and
the lead time on tools supporting new technolgies is 5 years or more for any
kind of saturation.

 

But at some level, I applaud the question - can we do better?

 

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From: COUTHURES Alain [mailto:alain.couthures@a...] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:17 PM
To: Jim Tivy; 'Michael Kay'; 'Kurt Cagle'; 'XML Developers List'
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Do namespaces address all use cases well

 

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 : 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

Jim

 

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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?

 

 > 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. 

 

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.

 

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay