Re: [xml-dev] Lessons learned from the XML experiment
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Pete Cordell <[email protected]> wrote:
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It's ironic that the design of associating a namespace with every element meant that you didn't have to drag context information from parent nodes (as would be required in Michael's example below), but the implementation using prefixes meant that you have to drag context information from parent nodes!
Well yes. Even though making URIs an intrinsic part of names was a mistake in XML Namespaces, it wasn't the biggest mistake. The biggest mistake was the hierarchical scoping mechanism that spawned prefixes, and thus the ultimate evil of QNames in content.
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