Another look at namespaces

[Shane P. McCarron]

The XHTML 1.0 Proposed Recommendation
(http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-xhtml1-19990824) states in its Abstract
and in Section 1.0 (What is XHTML?) that the specification is a
reformulation of the three HTML 4.0 DTDs into three XML applications. We
absolutely meant this to say that there are three distinct XML
applications corresponding to the three distinct SGML applications of
HTML 4.0.  I will add a comment to the issue database that this was
unclear and try to make an editorial change to the document to clarify
it during the transition from PR to Recommendation (assuming we ever get
that far ;-).

Shane McCarron
Speaking as editor of the XHTML 1.0 Proposed Recommendation

"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.
> 
> 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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