Another look at namespaces

[Ann Navarro]

At 01:03 PM 9/16/99 -0400, Eve L. Maler wrote:
>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.


I can see where that observation may have occured. 

However, I do feel that a relatively cursory glance at the actual documents
and Activity statement further solidify the charge to the WG of
transforming all of HTML 4.0 (three versions) into XML, which is what we did. 

I think it's a rather spurious suggestion that the entire discussion would
have been avoided 

> >This is a rationale. Including this with the recent draft
> >would have saved us all a lot of e-mail traffic.

had the statement been made in the manner that Tim did, only 3-4 weeks ago. 

The abstract seems to me to be very self explanatory: This specification
defines XHTML 1.0, a reformulation of HTML 4.0 as an XML 1.0 application,
and three DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4.0. 

It still, however, doesn't definitely answer the namespace issue, though I
personally believe it supports it. 

Ann


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