For someone creating their own markup, unless there is some reason that they
can't such as backwards compatibility, I would suggest doing:
<com.example.mySchema.myRoot myAttribute="blah">
<myElement myQName="com.example.mySchema.name">
blah
</myElement>
</com.example.mySchema.myRoot>
I would have some 'blessed' domains like 'w3c' and 'ietf' so you could do:
<w3c.html></w3c.html>
etc.
But now I'm navel gazing!
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Welch" <>
To: "Amelia A Lewis" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] namespaces redux (was: Re: [xml-dev] [XML Schema]
Here's how to empower instance document authors to create their own root
element)
>>> On 10/15/2012 12:09 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
>>> (in fact, best practices uses of W3C namespaces are not, ultimately, so
>> bad).
>
> Here are some namespace best practices for someone about create their
> own markup:
>
> 1. Always use a prefix, never change the default namespace.
> 2. Choose a namespace that will never, ever change - eg don't include
> version numbers or dates
> 3. Avoid using URLs, the globally unique benefit is far outweighed by
> the confusion cost
> 4. Keep it short, XPath 3.0 can include the namespace directly in the
> xpath
> 5. Use the standard prefixes for existing namespaces
> 6. Always declare all the namespaces on the root element
>
> The goal is to help consumers of the xml avoid all the usual pitfalls
> around namespaces. Some potentially controversial ones in there...
> :)
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
>
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