Another look at namespaces

[Eve L. Maler]

Not to pick nits, but the August 29 statement just observed a correlation; 
when I first read it, I didn't take it to be providing an actual reason for 
the decision.  The "as direct a mapping as possible" language does indeed 
give insight into the decision to go with a one-to-one DTD/NS mapping, 
though I think that the confusion reigning about the purpose of NSs puts 
the rationale on shaky foundations not of the WG's making.

Back to lurking,

         Eve

At 12:44 PM 9/16/99 -0400, Ann Navarro wrote:
>At 09:16 AM 9/16/99 -0700, Walter Underwood wrote:
> >At 04:41 PM 9/15/99 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> >>
> >> [...] the HTML 4.0 spec defined three, and XHTML was required to be
> >>as direct a mapping from HTML 4.0 to XML as possible.
> >
> >This is a rationale. Including this with the recent draft
> >would have saved us all a lot of e-mail traffic.
>
>This was said way back at the beginning (August 29)
>
>http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/xml-dev-Aug-1999/0370.html
>
>Quoting myself  "No, we've not confused them. We happen to have three
>'flavors' of XHTML 1.0
>(the first deliverable from the XHTML project, not the end sum of our
>work), that essentially map to the three flavors of HTML 4.0."
>
>
>But apparently nobody wanted to hear it.
>
>Ann
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