Original Message From: "Michael Kay"
>> To me the evolution of HTML is an illustration that things can change and
>> evolve and still be coped with. It may not be pretty, but I imagine that
>> if HTML had not moved beyond 1.0 all web sites would be Flash now :-)
>>
>
> It's much easier to add things than to take things away. The problem with
> namespaces is excess complexity, and proposed solutions fall into two
> categories:
>
...
>
> (b) those that lose backwards compatibility and therefore impose an
> unacceptable level of pain on the community in relation to the benefit
> delivered.
Imposing a new way of doing things on the entire XML community would indeed
be unacceptable. But I believe that there are new XML uses created everyday
that are essentially islands. These XML uses could quite easily adopt an
alternative non-backwards compatible method of namespaces with very little
pain, and quite a lot of gain.
Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd
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