On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 09:55:45 -0700, James Bryce Clark OASIS
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| Personal opinions only:
| * There certainly is such a thing as namespaces.
Sure. It's a wide field.
| * That device was overused and misused in some XML practices, but
| those outcomes do not disprove its utility in some other cases.
Colonified names or namespaces? Are you yet another who equates the
two?
| * As it (maybe) becomes more clear that the sweet spot of XML is
| in certain use cases (e.g. complex content), but not others (e.g.
| early-2000s middleware messages), perhaps the overcomplexity bad
| rap will dissipate.
I'm still quite unconvinced that the complexity of colonified names
has been at all "necessary" anywhere. The bad rap is well deserved
and will remain.
