Another look at namespaces

[Ann Navarro]

At 12:42 PM 9/16/99 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>At 12:27 PM 9/16/99 -0400, Ann Navarro wrote:

>>Nothing in the current proposals being debated sets functionality. Instead,
>>it provides granularity in namespaces making a nod toward the possibility
>>of additional functionality. 
>>It may turn out to be unnecessary, but as I've said before, I believe it
>>easier to remove that granularity later (or simply ignore it), than it will
>>be to put it back in at some later date. 
>
>I still find this argument unconvincing.  One schema per namespace appears
>to be what you're arguing for here

No. 

I'm arguing that each flavor of XHTML is sufficiently different (idiom,
dialect, what have you) that it deserves a different namespace. 

Information about those namespaces may, if the W3C chooses to follow this
path, be obtained from a schema, DTD, or other data source at the end of
that URI. 


>It may be that the tools we have are inadequate. I don't think, however,
>that we've yet reached the conclusion that three namespaces will let us do
>better with either the tools we have today or the tools we may have tomorrow.

Nor have we reached the conclusion that they won't. I'd rather provide the
ability now than have to try and add it back in. 

It should also be noted that these is not the *only* use case being
considered (see Steven's summary). 

Ann
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